Cornell is director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Other authors of the report included Joseph P. Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor at the Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Matthew Krepps, an assistant professor of strategy and management at the European Institute of Business Administration, and Taylor, a former research associate of the Harvard Project. The Seminole Tribe, along with the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequots, are in the minority of Tribes that earn more than 10 times that. The variation appears to be due primarily to the location and numerical size of the tribes.
More members mean less per capita share.
And poor location means less net profit in which to share. Still, the researchers believe Indian gaming has brought more good than harm to Indian Tribes in the 1990s.