2010 RAND Annual Report
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FOCUS ON Making a Difference RAND Corporation A n n u A l R e p o R t 2 0 1 0 rand B oar D of T rus tees December 2010 Paul G. Kaminski (Chairman) Michael Lynton Chairman and Chief executive officer, technovation, Inc.; Chairman and Chief executive officer, Sony pictures entertainment Former u.S. under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and technology Ronald L. Olson Philip Lader (Vice Chairman) partner, Munger, tolles & olson LLp Chairman, the WPP Group; Former u.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s Paul H. O’Neill Former u.S. Secretary of the treasury Barbara Barrett president and Chief executive officer, triple Creek Ranch; Michael K. Powell Former u.S. Ambassador to Finland Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Senior Advisor, providence equity Capital; Chairman, Richard J. Danzig MK powell Group Chairman, Center for a new American Security; Former u.S. Secretary of the navy Donald B. Rice Retired president and Chief executive officer, Agensys, Inc.; Francis Fukuyama Former u.S. Secretary of the Air Force olivier nomellini Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center on Democracy, Development, and the James E. Rohr Rule of law, Stanford university Chairman and Chief executive officer, the PNC Financial Services Group Richard Gephardt president and Chief executive officer, Gephardt Group Hector Ruiz Government Affairs; Former u.S. Congressman Former Chairman, GLOBAlFOUNDRIeS; Former Chairman and Chief executive officer, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Pedro José Greer, Jr., M.D. Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Florida International Carlos Slim Helú university College of Medicine Honorary life Chairman, Grupo CARSo, S. A. de C.V. John W. Handy Donald Tang Vice Chairman, American Shipping and logistics Group; Chief executive officer and Founder, CItIC Securities International General, united States Air Force, Retired partners Group (CSIp Group) Bonnie Hill James A. Thomson president, B. Hill enterprises, LLC president and Chief executive officer, RAnD Corporation Lydia H. Kennard Robert C. Wright Former executive Director, los Angeles World Airports Former Vice Chairman, General electric; Former Chairman and Chief executive officer, nBC universal; Chairman and Cofounder, Ann McLaughlin Korologos Autism Speaks; Senior Advisor, lee Capital Chairman emeritus, the Aspen Institute; Former u.S. Secretary of labor Trustees Emeriti Peter Lowy Chief executive officer, Westfield, LLC Harold Brown Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former u.S. Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci Chairman emeritus, the Carlyle Group; Former u.S. Secretary of Defense Contents 3 Message from the Chairman and the President Focus on Multinational Challenges Focus on Healthy Societies Focus on Forces and Resources Focus on Education Focus on Financial Stability Focus on Safety and Justice Focus on Infrastructure and Environment Focus on Terrorism 20 Our People 22 Outreach 26 Pardee RAND Graduate School 32 Philanthropy at RAND 42 Advisory Boards 50 Clients and Grantors 53 Financial Report Scan the Quick Response (QR) codes on the following pages with your camera-enabled smartphone to explore additional RAND resources online. Don’t have a QR reader? Search for “QR scanner” in your smartphone’s app store. FOCUS ON Making a Difference Message from the Chairman and the President Public policy decisions affect us all. We each have a personal stake in knowing that these decisions are made wisely. For nearly 65 years, RAND has served the policymaking process—and by extension, the public interest—by delivering evidence-based analysis to the people who shape policy and outcomes for all of us. In 2010, our work focused on • the policy issues that were in the headlines throughout much of the year, such as legalizing drugs, ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, health care reform, and improving corporate ethics and governance; • the perennial challenges of disaster preparedness, public safety, military readiness, and improving student achievement; and • impending concerns that require novel approaches and new methodologies, such as financing the health and welfare needs of an aging population and navigating the dangers of space debris. RAND’s commitment and capacity to make a difference with its research are what attract clients, grantors, and donors to support RAND’s work. They are also what motivate people to join RAND and to stay here. Our collective staff—comprising engineers, medical doctors, lawyers, economists, physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, sociologists, anthropologists, and individuals from just about every other discipline you can name— thrives on the opportunity to offer ideas and analysis to decisionmakers at all levels of government and in the private and nonprofit sectors. The questions they pursue, the disciplines and methods they employ, and the communities whose needs they address are in many ways different. But they draw inspiration from the same place: the opportunity to focus on facts and aim for progress. We thank you for your support of RAND—our work, our people, and our ideas. James A. Thomson Paul G. Kaminski President and Chief Executive Officer Chairman, RAND Board of Trustees FOCUS ON Multinational Challenges Rebuilding Haiti In the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that battered Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing 300,000 people, injuring 300,000 more, and leaving 1.3 million homeless, a team of RAND researchers set to work to identify plans for recovery that would extend beyond the initial rounds of medical and humanitarian aid. The resulting study emphasized state-building as a critical, threshold priority, arguing that Haiti will remain vulnerable to natural disasters, political turbulence, and civil unrest until it develops effective institutions. RAND researchers presented detailed findings to Haitian President René Préval, as well as to numerous Haitian and international officials. Study insights were also cited widely in global media outlets and formed the basis of multiple briefings to U.S. congressional audiences, RAND philanthropic supporters, and other public assemblages. Scan the code with your smartphone to watch RAND experts Keith Crane and Laurel Miller discuss strategies for a more resilient Haitian state. 4 foc u S on mak ing A dif ference Pakistan Afghanistan UZB. The rising number of TAJ. CHINA Public opinion polls and other data indicate that the TURKM. K2 (Mt Godwin- terrorist plots in the Austen) Taliban has failed to establish significant support Gilgit united States with KASHMIR among Afghans. A 2010 RAND analysis concluded Khyber AFGHANISTAN Pass links to Pakistan— PeshawarX ISLAMABAD that leveraging traditional policing institutions in Rawalpindi Sialkot Gujranwala including the 2010 Faisalabad Lahore rural villages and mobilizing the population against Zhob Jhang failed car bombing Quetta Indus Sadr insurgents can improve security in Afghanistan. Multan Bolan X Nok Pass Bahawalpur in New York City— Kundi The study also addressed concerns about whether IRAN Sukkur has policymakers INDIA engaging local forces will lead to more violence in the Gwadar Hyderabad concerned about Karachi countryside, strengthen local warlords, and weaken 0 100 200 km Port Muhammad the effectiveness of Bin Qasim central government forces. Another 2010 study Arabian Sea 0 100 200 mi existing strategies examined NATO’s peacekeeping role in Afghanistan to weaken militant groups operating in and from and concluded that failure, or even an indeterminate Pakistan. A 2010 study, supported through RAND’s outcome, would cloud the alliance’s own future. The Investment in People and Ideas program (see page authors examine the 32), examined counterinsurgency efforts in Pakistan risks, commitments, and found that militant groups persist in the nation and obligations of because Pakistani leaders continue to provide the current mission support to some groups and have not yet developed in light of NATO’s an effective counterinsurgency strategy that protects history and with the local population. The long-term objective of an eye toward developing a comprehensive counterinsurgency the future, as well strategy—including addressing deficiencies in as the effects on local police forces, providing aid and assistance to the alliance’s internal dynamics. Drawing on a wide displaced civilians, expanding development efforts, range of sources, the authors describe how NATO and creating new legal structures and improved came to be involved; concerns and tensions that governance—must take precedence over efforts to have developed over the investments and risks that destroy the enemy if Pakistan is to end the militant member and nonmember states have in the operation; threat, the study finds. management of the expectations of nations and peoples; and the need for a coherent, comprehensive, and coordinated long-term strategy. RAND researchers are recognized thoughtleaders on top international policy topics. A selection of 2010 commentaries published in global news outlets includes Managing Catastrophic Europe’s Empty Fifth Columns in A To-Do List for Shoring North Korea Risks by Promises by Christopher S. the Gulf? by Frederic up Haiti by James Dobbins, Bruce W. Bennett (The Korea Chivvis (ForeignPolicy.com, Wehrey, Dalia Dassa Kaye laurel E. Miller (Los Angeles Herald, January 21) February 24) (ForeignPolicy.com, Times, August 23) May 24) How Washington Can The Cost of Reuniting Your COIN Is No Good Really Help the Greens Korea by Charles Wolf, Jr.