CRGP Events tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2012:/events//11 2012-02-08T05:15:57Z Movable Type 4.32-en Confronting India's Infrastructure Bottleneck: Enabling PPPs in 3 States tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2008:/events//11.2555 2008-04-05T06:54:00Z 2008-02-11T23:00:05Z A 1.5 day Roundtable to be co-hosted by IIT Madras and CRGP in Chennai, India on Thursday and Friday, April 4 & 5, 2008.... rjorr A 1.5 day Roundtable to be co-hosted by IIT Madras and CRGP in Chennai, India on Thursday and Friday, April 4 & 5, 2008. Roundtable Format: The Roundtable format is entirely different from and should not be confused with a conventional "commercial conference":
  • The Roundtable is by invitation only and limited to about 30 participants. Industry participants and scholars are carefully selected to represent a tapestry of relevant experience and expertise. Every individual has a specific reason for being invited to the table!
  • Leading up to the Roundtable we have a planning committee and a series of conference calls to frame the issues, the participants, and the agenda, which is a very important aspect of developing a successful event,
  • In advance of the Roundtable we will produce a background document with partners at SDG and IIT-M to summarize several successful and several unsuccessful PPP case studies,
  • The Roundtable is highly interactive, light on presentations, heavy on discussion and debate, but we do need a few presentations to seed and focus the discussions,
  • We have a world-class facilitator to keep the roundtable discussions lively and orderly and a handful of academics, who are world experts in the subject matter to move the group along when a particular topic is already largely understood in the literature,
  • To ensure open, candid discussions, we conduct the Roundtable under the Chatham House Rule, which basically says that participants can disclose information received at the event but not attribute comments to individuals,
  • For the Roundtable to make headway, participants are required to stay and actively participate for the full 1.5 days, cell phones off, fully immersed,
  • We digitally record, transcribe and analyze the transcripts to produce a summary report to recap the key trends, strategies and insights, as a final work product, that will lead to follow-on research by academic participants and becomes a strategy document for participants,
Background: Previous Roundtables hosted by the Collaboratory considered private infrastructure projects in the emerging markets during the 1990s, focusing on the relatively large number of distressed projects requiring renegotiation. Lawyers, business executives, financiers, and public officials examined the reasons such projects encountered difficulties (often related to changes in government policies) and studied the ensuing renegotiations and workouts. Today, after three years of examining such challenges, the community of scholars and practitioners affiliated with the Collaboratory has captured many of the lessons learned through the experience of the 1990s and offers a knowledge base that may be leveraged for the design of new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects and programs.

Objective: The India PPP Roundtable is being planned to merge the Collaboratory community with a set of leading thinkers from States, cities and industry players that are intellectual leaders in the PPP area in India. The purpose of the Roundtable is to facilitate a dialogue amongst peers in Indian states and cities, to share global experiences, to hear diverse points of view, to develop consensus around key PPP concepts and definitions, and to move the debate forward with respect to how to develop a more sustainable stream of PPP deals.

Research Questions: Roundtable participants will be encouraged to reflect on several reearch questions:
  • How does each State view PPPs? What are their experiences and goals?
  • Definitionally, what are the key PPP concepts, terms and models in use in each state?
  • How are states shortlisting sectors and projects? What is the rationale?
  • Why is their a lack of PPP deal flow in each city or State? What are the bottlenecks and gating factors?
  • Are States putting into place PPP coordination agencies, or are they still approaching PPPs as one-off, ad hoc contractual agreements on a deal by deal basis?
  • What can we learn from the more mature PPP coordination agencies in other countries? What are the roles and functions of such agencies?
  • When we look at specific case studies of projects that have been approved by government but have not gone ahead --- which is something that we will do on day two --- what could be done differently? What are the levers to move these projects forward? What innovative ideas can we come up with when we put our heads together?
Roundtable Participants: Participation in the Roundtable is by invitation only, with carefully selected representation from relevant government agencies and sectors of industry, with about 30% international participation and 70% from India. We are limiting numbers to a small and select few to encourage real discussion and debate, and to create an intimate setting where participants are comfortable having an open and candid discussion. We envision the following participant roster:
  • 12 to 16 key officials from 4 states and 4 cities that are intellectual leaders in the PPP area;
  • 6 to 8 Stanford and IIT-M academics with expertise in project finance, public-private partnerships, global projects, institutional theory, organizational design, construction management, and law;
  • 2 to 3 imported academics who are experts in private infrastructure from the procurement, public policy and political risk perspectives;
  • 8 to 10 selected industry/multilateral experts who bring deep knowledge in setting-up PPPs from the investment banking, commercial banking, insurance, construction, and legal viewpoints;
  • 6 to 8 IIT-M and Stanford graduate students who sit in on the sessions around the edges; they can be recruited for follow-on research;
Call for Nominations: If you know of someone who you think could make a valuable contribution to this Roundtable, please let us know. Send your nomination to mash@iitm.ac.im ]]> Managing Global Initiatives: Strategy & Execution tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2008:/events//11.2781 2008-09-16T03:21:40Z 2008-05-12T03:31:58Z Offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15-17, 2008.... rjorr Offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15-17, 2008. This course provides interdisciplinary education in an intensive 3 day format, specifically designed for industry professionals. It is the only course of its kind, offering a combination of project management, business and social science theory, and crystallizing key CRGP research findings.

Course Objective
  • To prepare industry professionals to anticipate and navigate the challenges that arise in planning, staffing, and structuring a complex, capital-intensive project in a foreign market context.
Participants will learn...
  • To gather intelligence information to decipher the idiosyncrasies, dynamics, and drivers in a foreign market context;
  • To avoid "hidden costs" that come from differences in language, emotion, culture, conventions, legal-regulatory systems, property rights, and industrial organization;
  • To create joint ventures and strategic alliances that work and to recruit and manage a diverse local staff;
Who Should Attend?
  • Consultants,
  • Engineers,
  • Project managers,
  • Country Managers, and
  • Project Executives
Register here...]]> CRGP Executive Committee Meeting tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2008:/events//11.2835 2008-09-26T22:02:10Z 2008-09-18T22:08:15Z CRGP will be hosting a one-day Executive Committee Meeting for members and prospective members on September 26, 2008.... jennifer CRGP will be hosting a one-day Executive Committee Meeting for members and prospective members on September 26, 2008. The program agenda will be comprised of presentations of ongoing research and also open-ended discussions to prioritize future research, education and industry outreach priorities.

We are pleased to announce that we have blocked a selected amount of rooms for your convenience (see below):

Creekside Inn

Website:

The Creekside Inn is a charming 136-room hotel nestled in a park like, creekside setting, two miles from downtown Palo Alto and one mile from Stanford University. The hotel offers the following complimentary amenities: high-speed wireless Internet access throughout the hotel, evening wine hour, Town Car service within a 5-mile radius (7 AM to 9 PM), and parking.

3400 El Camino Real

Palo Alto, CA 94306

Phone: 650-213-4250 or 1-800-492-7335

Fax: 650-493-6787

Rates: $145-159 Sun-Thurs (1 Standard Queen/King)/$129-$139 (Fri-Sat), $209 Sun-Thurs (Exe. Deluxe)/ $169 (Fri-Sat) Check-in: 3:00 PM Check-out: 12:00 PM

Cut-off date for conference rate: September 5, 2008

All rooms are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 12%) in effect at time of check-in. A guarantee of all room charges is required by credit card at time of reservation. Cancellations must be made at least 48 hours prior to check-in. Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance will result in the forfeit of one night's room deposit plus tax.

Westin Palo Alto

Website: http://www.phmhotels.com/westinpa.html

Located within walking distance of downtown Palo Alto and the Stanford Shopping Center, the Sheraton offers resort-style lodging directly across from Stanford University. The hotel features complimentary high-speed Internet access in the lobby and business center. Internet access is available in guestrooms for $9.95 per day. The Marguerite shuttle stops next to the hotel, as does Caltrain, which serves San Francisco and other Bay area destinations. Parking is $15.00 per day (valet) and $10.00 per day (self).

625 El Camino Real

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Phone: 650-328-2800 or 1- 800-325-3535

Fax: 650-327-7362

Rates: $149 (Run of House) Check-in: 3:00 PM Check-out: 12:00 PM

Cut-off date for conference rate: September 5, 2008

All rooms are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 12.07 percent) in effect at time of check-in. A guarantee of all room charges is required by credit card at time of reservation. Individuals may cancel their reservation up to 24 hours, by 6:00 PM, prior to their arrival date. Cancellations made after 6:00 PM will result in the forfeit of one night's room deposit plus tax.

Stanford Terrace Inn

Website: http://www.stanfordterraceinn.com/

The Stanford Terrace Inn is a boutique hotel conveniently located across the street from the southern end of the Stanford University campus. The hotel offers complimentary T1 Internet access in all guest rooms, parking, complimentary continental breakfast, and a complimentary shuttle to local destinations with advance notice. The Stanford Marguerite shuttle stops in front of the hotel.

531 Stanford Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94306

Phone: 650-857-0333 or 1-800-729-0332

Fax: 650-857-0343

Please refer to Group number- 1088

Rates: $159-169 (S), $169-179 (D) Check-in: 2:00 PM Check-out: 12:00 PM

Cut-off date for conference rate: September 5, 2008

For more local information on Palo Alto/ Stanford visit: http://www.paloalto.net/visiting/ ]]> Global Infrastructure Portfolio Construction Workshop tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2008:/events//11.3213 2008-11-15T00:57:51Z 2008-10-02T00:16:23Z On November 14th the Collaboratory will host a private, invite-only workshop on Global Infrastructure Portfolio Construction.... rjorr On November 14th the Collaboratory will host a private, invite-only workshop on Global Infrastructure Portfolio Construction. The meeting is intended for the heads of infrastructure allocations at major pension funds, sovereign funds, and multilateral development institutions.

The purpose of the meeting it to:

  • Review research conducted at the Collaboratory over the past 12 months to construct three different hypothetical globally and sectorally diversified infrastructure portfolios,
  • Compare strategies and lessons learned between institutional investors who are now actively engaged in building globally diversified infrastructure portfolios,
  • Learn from infrastructure funds about how they are thinking about portfolio construction at the fund level,
  • Learn from the multilateral development institutions that have been setting-up internal fund of funds for infrastructure for a number of years,
  • Review lessons learned from long-term research programs at Stanford University and Oxford University on infrastructure investment and governance,
  • Discuss the challenges inherent in infrastructure investing and the areas where new research would be beneficial to the investment community,
Please contact the Executive Director if you would like more information. ]]> Infrastructure and Economic Stimulus: What Role for Alternative Financing and Procurement? tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2008:/events//11.3419 2008-12-03T01:52:39Z 2008-12-10T02:04:51Z Please join us in the State Capitol, Room 444 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. on December 2 for an informative presentation by Michael Gerrard, Deputy Chief Executive, of Partnerships UK (PUK), a British non-profit distributing body established in 2000 by Her Majesty's... rjorr Please join us in the State Capitol, Room 444 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. on December 2 for an informative presentation by Michael Gerrard, Deputy Chief Executive, of Partnerships UK (PUK), a British non-profit distributing body established in 2000 by Her Majesty's Treasury. Our host is Ryan Orr, Executive Director of the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University.

9:00-10:00 a.m. -- Special briefing for organized labor, both public and private sector. The Assembly Member organized this briefing specifically to provide an opportunity to discuss the concerns that were raised by labor and how they were addressed in the UK's use of alternative financing and procurement approaches to build infrastructure.

10:30-12:00 p.m.-- Briefing for legislators, key decision makers at state agencies, and other interested parties. Labor is also invited to attend this briefing as well.

Why This Briefing? The worldwide economic crisis of the past two months presents extreme challenges for local agencies trying to fund critical basic services -- much less to build the schools, libraries, courthouses, hospitals, roads, bridges, ports, and other infrastructure urgently needed by California's growing population. In these difficult economic times, we can all benefit from hearing how others dealt with similar challenges, during similarly tough fiscal times.

What is Partnerships UK? The mission of PUK is to advise agencies on best practices when contracting with private companies to support the procurement of infrastructure and other public services. The PUK program now involves almost 900 projects with a capital value of around $100 billion. PUK grew out efforts by British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government to stimulate economic growth during a severe recession in the early 1990's. After various starts and stops, the Labour Government established a Treasury Taskforce in 1997 to reinvigorate the private finance initiative, which was the precursor to the formation of PUK. The formation was a recognition of the increasingly complex way that the public sector was engaging with the private sector, and the need to supplement and enhance the public sector skills base.

Our Speaker, Mr. Michael Gerrard: Mr. Michael Gerrard is well qualified to tell us the story of the British experience with alternative financing and procurement methods of building infrastructure and procuring public services. He joined Partnerships UK (PUK) at its formation in 2000 as Head of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and became Deputy CEO in 2002. He has 30 years of experience in developing and implementing capital projects in the private sector and, since 1998, within the UK public sector. PUK's projects are spread across the infrastructure, utilities and IT sectors and include several undertaken as joint ventures between the public and private sectors.

External audits of the UK's program show that it has reduced the costs of infrastructure and public service procurement in the UK by up to approximately 17% over the project lifecycle, which represents a substantial direct material benefit to society.

Research shows that the success of the PUK model lies in creating multiple alternative delivery formats for infrastructure and public services, and in creating mechanisms to assess the relative costs and benefits of various delivery formats (including conventional delivery). The goal is to identify the delivery model that achieves the greatest value for the taxpayer dollar.

Mr. Gerrard will make a brief presentation describing the PUK program, followed by a question and answer period. ]]> CRGP Co-Sponsors the Global Technology Symposium tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2009:/events//11.3585 2009-03-26T23:15:08Z 2009-02-21T00:44:53Z We are pleased to announce that CRGP is co-sponsoring the Sixth Annual Global Technology Symposium which will take place here at Stanford University on March 26-27, 2009.... jennifer We are pleased to announce that CRGP is co-sponsoring the Sixth Annual Global Technology Symposium which will take place here at Stanford University on March 26-27, 2009. This year's Symposium is expected to draw leaders in business, science, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and policy making from all over the world. The Symposium consistently brings together executives of leading corporations, distinguished scholars, and policy makers in a knowledge-sharing environment unlike that of any other conference.

Who Should Attend?
  • Growing technology companies that want to extend their operations to the global market.
  • Institutional investors and venture capital firms interested in exploring investment opportunities.
  • Accounting firms, consulting firms and law firms that want to establish new client relationships.
  • Trade industry associations and non-profit organizations involved in promoting global cooperation in the fields of science, technology and defense conversion.
  • Government officials involved in the development of worldwide scientific cooperation.
  • Members of academic institutions seeking to share ideas on the latest inventions and technological and scientific developments.
For more information please visit...]]> Stanford Advanced Project Management Course: Mastering the Project Portfolio tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2009:/events//11.3671 2009-09-14T22:11:59Z 2009-04-24T22:53:10Z To be offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 14 - 16, 2009.... jennifer To be offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 14 - 16, 2009. In this core course you will learn an industry-proven approach to the high-challenge yet high-stakes, high-payoff undertaking of ensuring that the organization is investing in the right projects, giving those projects the right resources, and getting them completed at the right time. The course offers a complete, best-practices-based methodology for project selection, prioritization, and oversight-plus mentoring in how to resolve real-world implementation concerns.

Learn how to:
  • Establish effective governance over a project portfolio or multiple project portfolios
  • Evaluate the inherent value - and risk- of projects in the portfolio
  • Align projects with strategic objectives
  • Make trade-offs between several desirable opportunities when faced with insufficient resources to accomplish them all
  • Customize, implement, and institutionalize a portfolio management process that will work for your organization
  • Apply good sense in managing the day-to-day details of the portfolio
  • Reduce the negative impact of organizational politics
  • Integrate the portfolio management process with other business processes
  • Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities
  • Effectively work with clients or customers to help them organize their project portfolios
  • Evaluate existing projects against new projects while managing a dynamic pipeline in which projects are constantly added, closed out, and rescoped
  • Effectively estimate resource capacity against resource demand
  • Better understand project interdependence
  • Effectively handle the requests of project and functional managers for more time, money, and resources
  • Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities ]]> Stanford Advanced Project Management Course: Mastering the Project Portfolio tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2010:/events//11.3855 2010-03-27T22:30:41Z 2009-10-07T19:29:21Z jennifer

    Course Description

    In this core course you will learn an industry-proven approach to the high-challenge yet high-stakes, high-payoff undertaking of ensuring that the organization is investing in the right projects, giving those projects the right resouces, and getting them completed at the right time. The course offers a complete, best- practices- based methodology for project selection, prioritization, and oversight-plus mentoring in how to resolve real-world implementation concerns. Learn more...]]>     Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2010:/events//11.4171 2010-05-03T22:56:38Z 2010-05-04T00:00:52Z To be offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday thru Friday, September 13 - 17, 2010.... jennifer To be offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday thru Friday, September 13 - 17, 2010.]]> The Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program provides professionals with advanced tools and techniques to strategically execute projects, programs, and portfolios. The program consists of a curriculum of noncredit short courses and combines Stanford University's academic and research expertise with the proven project management methodologies of IPSolutions, Inc.

    The result is a dynamic curriculum that provides advanced skills and practical instruction on the processes, organizational structure, and tools that assure that project work yields the desired business results.

    Practical Approaches, Proven Results

    In today's business environment it is essential for organizations to develop project managers who can complete individual projects on time and within budget. It is even more critical to develop an organization that can leverage its project management capability into a key competitive advantage in an ever-changing marketplace.

    Leading The Way

    The Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program is a unique blend of cutting-edge Stanford University research and proven techniques from leading-practice companies that provides crucial insights and practical tools for managing projects, portfolios, and complex systems.

    Learn how to:
    • Establish effective governance over a project portfolio or multiple project portfolios
    • Evaluate the inherent value - and risk- of projects in the portfolio
    • Align projects with strategic objectives
    • Make trade-offs between several desirable opportunities when faced with insufficient resources to accomplish them all
    • Customize, implement, and institutionalize a portfolio management process that will work for your organization
    • Apply good sense in managing the day-to-day details of the portfolio
    • Reduce the negative impact of organizational politics
    • Integrate the portfolio management process with other business processes
    • Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities
    • Effectively work with clients or customers to help them organize their project portfolios
    • Evaluate existing projects against new projects while managing a dynamic pipeline in which projects are constantly added, closed out, and rescoped
    • Effectively estimate resource capacity against resource demand
    • Better understand project interdependence
    • Effectively handle the requests of project and functional managers for more time, money, and resources
    • Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities

      ]]> CRGP Co-Hosts the Infrastructure Investment Course tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2010:/events//11.4301 2010-11-17T21:53:40Z 2010-11-17T22:40:00Z We are pleased to announce that together with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, CRGP is co-hosting a 1-day course, "Infrastructure Investment: Project- Level Due Diligence & Analysis",which will take place here at Stanford University on December 2, 2010.... jennifer We are pleased to announce that together with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, CRGP is co-hosting a 1-day course, "Infrastructure Investment: Project- Level Due Diligence & Analysis",which will take place here at Stanford University on December 2, 2010. ]]> COURSE AGENDA

        7:30 - 8:15 Continental Breakfast

        8:15 - 8:30 Welcome & Introduction by Paul Marca, Ryan Orr, Jim Meketa

        8:30 - 10:00 Assessing the Viability of a Financial Structure by Antonio Vives

        10:00 - 10:30 Break

        10:30 - 12:00 Assessing Risk Mitigation Tools for Demand, Credit, Currency, and Regulatory Risk by Robert Sheppard

        12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

        1:15 - 2:45 Analyzing & Auditing Cash Flow Models by John Richter

        2:45 - 3:15 Break

        3:15 - 4:45 Sensitivity & Scenario Analysis: Concepts, Tricks & Tips by John Richter

        5:00 - Cocktail Hour

        If you have questions about the course, please contact Stanford University Course Director, Ryan Orr by telephone at (650)575-9365 or alternatively by email at rjorr@stanford.edu

        INSTRUCTOR BIOS

          John Richter

          John has over 20 years experience in industry and project finance, nearly all that time directly or indirectly involved with financial modeling. He graduated from Princeton University with a BSc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and worked for a manufacturing and venture capital firm for six years before graduating from Harvard Business School and joining Bechtel Enterprises in 1992. In 1995 Bechtel co-founded InterGen, an independent power producer. John transferred to the new company at its inception as a Director in its finance group. In 1999 John co-founded F1F9, a financial modeling services company that focused initially on training and soon grew to supporting organizations in numerous aspects of modeling. As well as co-developing F1F9's approach to financial modeling, John was F1F9's principal instructor and led the development of proprietary software used for checking models. A combination of John's industry knowledge, technical know-how, and accessible teaching style made his financial modeling training courses extremely popular. John continues delivering courses for Financial Mechanics as one of its principal instructors. John is a Visiting Scholar at the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University.

          Robert Sheppard

          Robert Sheppard is Co-Chair of the Infrastructure Experts and INFRADEV, a private sector initiative launched by the United Nations in 2002 to advance public-private sector collaboration and risk-sharing in infrastructure development and finance. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Sheppard has advised international and entrepreneurial private sector companies, multilateral development banks, and governments on developing and financing infrastructure projects, using his skills as an attorney and investment banker. Mr. Sheppard previously served as Co-Head of the Global Project Finance Group at Bank of America, where his work covered syndicated bank loans, private placements, capital markets, and a wide variety of financial advisory assignments. His innovative project finance deal for AES in Tietê Brazil won the Infrastructure Journal Project Finance Deal of the Year Award in 2002. He has worked extensively in Africa and Central America, including Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica. His assignments have included mapping infrastructure needs, assisting domestic financial institutions in evaluating their capacity to provide local currency financing, representing governments in negotiations with international developers, and developing innovative risk mitigation approaches. Mr. Sheppard also teaches international project finance in the business school at the University of South Carolina and serves as a Visiting Scholar at Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University.

          Antonio Vives

          Antonio is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and directs a consulting firm on Infrastructure Finance and Corporate Social Responsibility. He was manager of Sustainable Development and also Deputy Manager of Infrastructure and Financial Markets at the Inter-American Development Bank. Was with the Bank for 28 years in operations and in strategy and best practice research. Has taught corporate finance at several graduate schools of business in the United States, including George Washington University, Virginia Tech and Carnegie Mellon. He has authored a textbook on corporate financial evaluation, published more than 100 articles on finance, management, corporate social responsibility, and infrastructure (including Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public Private Partnerships). Mr. Vives, a Chemical Engineer, holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance and Capital Markets from Carnegie Mellon University.

          ]]> Singapore Roundtable, Pensions, SWFs and Infrastructure: Asia-Pac, Jan 27-28 tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2011:/events//11.4335 2011-01-24T22:52:00Z 2011-01-30T23:52:49Z Hosted at Singapore Management University on Thursday and Friday, January 27 and 28, 2011.... rjorr Hosted at Singapore Management University on Thursday and Friday, January 27 and 28, 2011. In case you did not receive your FedEX package, here is a complete set of materials for the Roundtable:

          01_Background Statement
          02_QIC Club Deal News Release
          03_Financial Times Article on Pension Investment in Infrastructure
          04_Whitepaper by Shailesh Pathak
          05_Whitepaper by Naoyuki Yoshino ]]> CRGP Seminar: Martha Gross on Thursday Oct 27 at Noon tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2011:/events//11.4447 2011-10-25T03:46:40Z 2011-11-11T06:33:53Z

          Martha Gross, PhD, will be presenting a new paper entitled "Aligning Public-Private Partnership Contracts with Public Objectives for Transportation Infrastructure" on October 27th in room 300 of Y2E2.... ashby Aligning Public-Private Partnership Contracts with Public Objectives for Transportation Infrastructure" on October 27th in room 300 of Y2E2. ]]>
          Abstract: The public-private partnership (PPP) approach is often considered as an option for procuring large-scale transportation infrastructure projects, whose substantial costs can otherwise delay their delivery due to a lack of available public funding. But some recent PPPs, both in the US and abroad, have received critical attention due to perceived misalignment of these projects' outcomes with public-sector objectives. For highway PPPs in particular, a frequent target of scrutiny is the subset of public objectives which involves these contracts' toll-pricing goals, which can generally be classified as (1) achieving a specific toll rate, (2) managing congestion, or (3) minimizing state subsidy/maximizing revenue. With the diversity of PPP contracting options, though, the link between these outcomes and the underlying PPP contract structure is not clear. Hence the central question arises: Given specific policy objectives for road pricing, how should public owners select PPP contract strategies which support these outcomes? This inquiry lends itself well to exploration via qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a case-based approach which combines quantitative and qualitative aspects to analyze a limited sample size without requiring highly detailed, and often commercially sensitive, project data. Salient characteristics of 18 domestic and international PPPs were quantified and evaluated using QCA to identify patterns of contractual elements which supported each of the three pricing-related objectives above. The results provide institutional guidance for public agencies seeking to structure future PPP procurements, and several applications of these findings to current PPPs illustrate the suitability of these recommendations. ]]>           CRGP Seminar: Collective Intelligence in Organizations, December 15th tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2011:/events//11.4477 2011-12-10T01:08:02Z 2011-12-10T01:17:49Z Marja Turunen, Visiting Scholar at the CRGP, will be giving a seminar at CRGP a noon on December 15 entitled "Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Innovation platform (Design Factory) transfer from Finland to Shanghai, China - Reflections on the empirical research... ashby Collective Intelligence in Organizations: Innovation platform (Design Factory) transfer from Finland to Shanghai, China - Reflections on the empirical research journey."]]> February 10: Ralph Hall tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2012:/events//11.4499 2012-02-08T03:46:20Z 2012-02-08T05:14:47Z Ralph Hall will be presenting his paper "Productive Use of Domestic Rural Water Systems: The Senegal Case" at 12:05pm in Y2E2 room 335 on February 10.... ashby Ralph Hall will be presenting his paper "Productive Use of Domestic Rural Water Systems: The Senegal Case" at 12:05pm in Y2E2 room 335 on February 10. February 21: Rodrigo Pizarro tag:crgp.stanford.edu,2012:/events//11.4501 2012-02-08T03:48:23Z 2012-02-08T05:15:57Z Rodrigo Pizarro will be presenting his paper "The Structuration of the Conservation Regime" at 12:05pm in Y2E2 room 270 on February 21.... ashby Rodrigo Pizarro will be presenting his paper "The Structuration of the Conservation Regime" at 12:05pm in Y2E2 room 270 on February 21.