“…Economics and quantitative method-oriented curriculum advocated by Ford for management education in the 1960s also reached these public focused disciplines and led to the initiative within the US to create or re-formulate eight public policy schools with a focus on analysis. These institutions were Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, Harvard, Michigan, Texas, Stanford, and RAND (Ellwood, 2008; Raadscheldersa et al, 2018). It was during Kennedy and Johnson administration era when people in the leading positions of public sector, business, and academia believed any challenge could be solved if quantitative and analytic approaches were used.…”