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Ford School welcomes OPM Director Rob Shriver for conversation on careers in public service

Oct 15, 2024

On October 8, the Ford School welcomed Rob Shriver, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, for an in-person conversation to reflect on his career, discuss public service, and the future of the federal workforce.During the fireside...

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Publication

Policy memo: Weiss on "What’s next for performance management in the federal government"

Feb 4, 2021

As the Biden administration embarks on its first hundred days, experts from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy have produced a series of policy briefs on key issues. Download the PDF of this brief or read the web-formatted version...

New Weiss report from IBM Center lays out “A Framework for Improving Federal Program Management”

Aug 7, 2018

“When something goes wrong in a federal program, it makes the news,” says Janet Weiss. Sometimes, that is the only picture that people see of such programs.That reality and the “crucial stake” that the public, Congress, and executive branch each...