The Boston Consulting Group

Jay Harper has done contract work for The Boston Consulting Group. The assignment involved analyzing the employee medical records of a major, self-insured manufacturer. The statistical analysis focused on patient care and drug efficacy. This analysis was used as supporting material for several drug-approval applications made to the FDA by a large pharmaceutical company.

 
Hunter College and Queens College

From 1991 to 1994 Jay Harper was an adjunct lecturer in the sociology departments at Hunter College and Queens College in New York City. He taught social statistics and research methods to college juniors and seniors.

In this role, he helped students learn how to structure their thinking and how to collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. He broke with generally accepted methods for teaching these courses by not stressing the calculation of statistics, but rather emphasizing an understanding of how to manage and interpret the statistical output done by computers. While he taught his students the methods of proper survey design, he also taught them its limitations and explained how other forms of research can be used to affirm quantitative findings.

 
Population Research Center, UT Austin

While in college Jay worked at The University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center for Teresa Sullivan, a labor force demographer, Professor of Sociology and Law, and now Executive Vice Chancellor for Acacemic Affairs of the University of Texas System.

 
Housing Environments Research Group, CUNY

While in graduate school, Jay Harper worked with The Housing Environments Research Group (HERG) on surveys of the City of New York's management of tax-foreclosed residential buildings. (HERG is part of The City University of New York's Center for Human Environments.)

 
George Brown College

In 1994, Dan Wong was an adjunct lecturer in the mathematics department at George Brown College in Toronto, where he taught statistics.