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Article: Making an impact: from promoting goodwill to helping win grants, economic impact studies do more than just report the bottom line.
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- University Business
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- September 1, 2007
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WHEN OFFICIALS AT HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY of Science and Technology (Pa.) commissioned an economic impact study in 2001, they admit that at the time there wasn't much impact to report.
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Harrisburg was starting from scratch, hoping to build a bricks-and-mortar university from the ground up. But like any struggling startup, the school needed an infusion of cash--and a reason for grantors and legislators to open their pocketbooks.
With the help of Kaludis Consulting, a Washington, D.C.-based national consulting firm that has worked with hundreds of other schools on economic impact studies and financial strategy projects, ...