Mark H. Moore is the Hauser Professor for Nonprofit Organizations and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...
at
Harvard University
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. He is also the author of a strategic management book called ''Creating Public Value''.
Education
Mark H. Moore earned a B.A. at
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
(''summa cum laude'') with exceptional distinction in political science and economics as well as a M.P.P. and Ph.D. from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Professional life
From 1974 to 2004, Moore was the
Guggenheim Professor of Program Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2004, he became the Hauser Professor for Nonprofit Organizations, a position he still holds. He is also the Founding Chairman of the School's Committee on Executive Programs, has served as chair for over a decade.
In the late 1990s and the 2000s, he has been one of the primary critics of the
New Public Management
New Public Management (NPM) is an approach to running public service organizations that is used in government and public service institutions and agencies, at both sub-national and national levels. The term was first introduced by academics in the ...
movement dominating public administration development in the 1980s and early 1990s and can be considered as one of the main contributors to the shift to
public value management.
Research interests
* Public management and leadership;
* Civil society and community mobilization;
* Criminal justice policy and management.
See also
*
Public value
Public value describes the value that an organization or activity contributes to society. The term was originally coined by Harvard professor Mark H. Moore who saw it as the equivalent of shareholder value in public management. Public value is su ...
- a term used to mean the equivalent of
shareholder value
Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. It became prominent during the 1980s and 1990s along with the management principle value-based management or "managing for value".
Definition
The term "shar ...
in
public management
Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment (public governance), management of non-profit establ ...
.
* http://publicvalue.org/
Sources
Mark H. Moore's profile on the Kennedy School of Government's website'From New Public Management to Public Value: Paradigmatic Change and Managerial Implications' by Janine O'Flynn
References
External links
Mark Mooreat the
John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...
''Creating Public Value''on Google Books
Interview with Mark Mooreby the Center for Leadership and Values in Society of the University of St. Gallen
personal website & blog-- http://publicvalue.org/
Living people
Harvard University faculty
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Yale University alumni
Harvard Kennedy School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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