The study is available online at no cost and with the help of the Internet, it has provided a basic reference for congressional and federal hearings and has helped create curriculum for graduate programs, Carpenter said.
While Hong Kong was more of a business center and Macau was becoming a resort destination, there were enough similarities to cross reference the data and his team was able to create an analytic left-brain quantitative prioritization model using a right brain intuitive approach to the data.