Making the Case for Sex Trafficking

[Fernando Berdion Del Valle]

How are we doing on the slideshow. Is there a latest version we can take a look at?

Also, we may want to keep the justification of "why sex trafficking is important" - the Boris Johnson slide.

Apparently, just because they assigned this to us, doesn't mean that it is a priority for the Mayor (From the general briefing book feedback):

"When it comes to feasibility, many teams focused on the rest of the world — and missed the mayor’s own personal, professional, and political world. Given that the mayor has lots of problems, and given that this one is very hidden, why should the mayor invest personal,political, financial, and organizational capital in this one? Yes, this is an important problem.But every day, someone shows up in the mayor’s office with an important problem — indeed, avery, very, very important problem. As the mayor thinks about how he should allocate the 168

hours in his week, why should this one deserve even one hour. (Or, to think about it another way, why should the mayor allocate 52 hours during the year to this problem, or roughly the equivalent of almost one work-week?)

No team even thought it was necessary to make this case. They don’t seem to recognize that they are asking the mayor to make an important resource-allocation decision — the allocation of his most valuable resource: his own time. They simply assumed that, because this is — by definition — an important problem, the mayor should invest lots of resources in it.Even if a mayor [an executive-branch official as opposed to a legislative branch official]

explicitly asked someone to develop a personal, professional, operational, and political strategy for attacking a problem, this mayor will not commit to implementing the strategy until he or she is convinced that it makes some real, operational sense with some hope of achieving something concrete within a reasonable time."

This prof is a little cranky, huh?

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M.P.P. Candidate, 2014
Harvard Kennedy School
email: Fernando_Berd...@hks14.harvard.edu
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[Haoxiao Yu]

Agreed and I think we might need to push more on that.

I just took a look at our briefing book feedback. I think the biggest
issue both professor address is the lack of discussion about
Evaluation and Implementing of specific policies. Below are other
issues they addressed

Briefing Book:

1. Executive Summary: Lack content for Supply side

2. Background: tailor to the problem we currently have

3. Too many recommendations under the “Loss of channels for intelligence”

3. Why these options were selected and how they will be evaluated to
illustrate success: Analysis of pros and cons of alternative policies;
political stakeholders; motivation for mayors

4. Add a conclusion Session



Topic suggested for tomorrow’s meeting:

1. Talk about evaluation criteria

2. Think about one or two final solutions and talk about details in
terms of policy implementation

3. Overall structure for presenting the policy evaluation section


Thanks! We are almost there!

Best,
Irene

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[Dan Bowles]

Sorry--just now freeing up. So where did we end up on re-draft slides? Available after 930 tomorrow.

Daniel R. Bowles, Zuckerman Fellow
Harvard Business School | MBA Candidate, Class of 2015
Harvard Kennedy School | MPP Candidate, Class of 2015
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[Huie, Stephen]

Hi everyone,

Sorry, I'm behind on the slides. I'm still working on them now. It'll be done in a couple of hours.

Stephen

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[Dan Bowles]

Yes -- 2:30.  Sorry.  

Stephen -- can you send me the latest version of the slides?  I'm going through the briefing book and can work on structure now to make it mirror.  Not changing a ton of content, just making sure we're in the right general order. 

Thanks,

DRB

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[Huie, Stephen]

Hi Dan,

Here is the latest version v6.  I request that no one make any more changes to the slide deck until I can show you a fresher version this afternoon (so we're not doing different things).

The deck is still without a defined structure, but integrates changes that we worked on yesterday.  I'm trying to move this to a more narrative sequence, especially at the beginning.

Stephen

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[Fernando Berdion Del Valle]

Hi Stephen,

This looks great. Leaps and bounds better than when we started. See you at 3 pm.

FB

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[Dan Bowles]

Thanks, Stephen.  

Re: my schedule -- I plan to work on the briefing book itself (focusing on structure, executive summary and cleaning up the draft with an eye on consistency, key charts/graphs/formatting and tightening language or highlighting areas where we need more text) for the next few hours.  

I then have a meeting at 1:30 that should be done by 3pm, at which point I'll join our discussion.  

I have another meeting from 6pm to 9pm for the LSS Virginia trip planning group, then need to focus all of my efforts on my upcoming final exam, which is at 1:10 pm tomorrow.  I have class before that from 11:40 to 1:00 pm, and a dinner tomorrow night from 6:30 to 8pm.  

I know this is a busy time leading up to the final briefing on Thursday, and I'm trying to make sure I keep pulling my weight.  Just wanted to be proactive and let folks know my commitments in addition to SpringEx.  

As I noted yesterday, I am ready to stand behind any decision that the group makes.  I feel that we've made substantial progress, even since yesterday, and feel more than comfortable with key decisions being made in my absence. 

I'll be in the Taubman lab for the next few hours working.  Feel free to come by at any point. 

Thanks team, and let's keep pushing--almost there!

Thanks,

Dan

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[Huie, Stephen]

Thanks for the update, Dan.

For me, I have a hard stop at 5PM because I need to prepare for the Report Back on Palestine at 7PM L130, which I hope you call will also have time to attend.

Stephen

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