Kevin Leiby – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Finance Fellow

Year

2018

This Rappaport Public Finance Summer Fellowship provides a stipend to students who undertake a project related to public finance. Traditionally these projects have been a continuation of work conducted in Greater Boston Applied Field Lab: Advanced Budgeting, Financial Management and Operations lab offered by Professor Linda Bilmes.

Graduate School
Harvard Kennedy School

Placement
MBTA

Project Description
Kevin Leiby helped the MBTA identify and pursue opportunities to “pay for performance” from third-party contractors. His data analysis informed design of new performance measurement and incentivization schemes for contracts costing the transit authority more than $15 million per year.