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CRGP Seminar Series
Seminar Series on Global Projects
Description
Format: A journal club seminar where we will all read a paper or two in advance each week and an assigned discussion leader will lead the discussion of the paper/s at the seminar.
Topics: Topics vary from week to week, but generally revolve around issues related to Global Projects.
Enrollment: Open to researchers, faculty and graduate students from engineering, business, law, sociology, economics, etc.
Time/Place: Tuesdays at 10am.Y2E2 room #155
Seminar Outline, Spring Quarter, 2008
| Date | Speaker/Disc. leader | Topic | Readings/Slides
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| 3-May | Mervi Murtonen | Risk management approaches in global engineering projects | Power point slides
| | 13-May | Yang Bo | Study on Project Organization Structure for multi projects Hydropower Development Enterprises in China | Power Point Slides
| | 20-May | Cheryl Chi | Role of Expatriates in Global Projects | Power point slides
| | 27-May | Anand K. Sharma, Chair Professor Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Research work at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore | Power Point Slides
| | 3-June | Xuehua Zhang | Agencies, Courts, Citizens: Environmental Enforcement in Hubei Province, China | Power Point Slides
| | 1-July at 1:30-3:00pm; Location 101 or 105 in Y2E2 | Tuomas Ahola, HUT, Finland | Identifying and describing the mechanisms through which inter-organizational relationships affect the efficiency of project implementation in inter-firm project networks | Power Point Slides
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Brown Bag Seminar on Governance of Global Projects - Description
Format: A journal club seminar where we will all read a paper or two in advance each week and an assigned discussion leader will lead the discussion of the paper/s at the seminar.
Topics: Topics vary from week to week, but generally revolve around issues related to Governance of Global Projects.
Enrollment: Open to researchers, faculty and graduate students from engineering, business, law, sociology, economics, etc.
Credit: 1 unit, students who wish to sign up for 1 unit of credit contact Ray Levitt ray.levitt@stanford.edu.
Time/Place: Wednesday, 12 noon to 1pm, CIFE Conference room, 2nd floor, Building 550;
Food:Bring your lunch!
Seminar Outline, Autumn Quarter, 2007
| Date | Speaker/Disc. leader | Topic | Readings
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| 3-Oct | Ray Levitt | Stakeholding | Stoney and Winstanley
| | 10-Oct | Dick Scott | Sociological perspectives | Hult & Walcott, Ch 4 & 5 Wilson "bureaucracy"*
| | 17-Oct | Hilary Shaffer | Comparative Planning Regimes | 1)Arnstein, 2) Bucrie & Cayford*, 3) CAO Interventions...
| | 25-Oct Thursday, 4-5pm Note: Location Hewlett 102 | Vit Henisz | Global Legitimacy, Local Legitimacy and the Incomplete Implementation of a Diffused Practice: Neoliberal Reform in the Global Electric Power Industry.
Another Presentation by Vits-
Dynamic Influence Mapping of Dynamic Influence Mapping of PPP Stakeholders PPP Stakeholders. | Zelner, Henisz and Holburn (2007), other optional readings Henisz, Zelner and Guillen (2005), Henisz, Zelner (2005)
| | 31-Oct (note change from 29th) | Dick Scott | Trans-national Governance |
Ch 1 & Ch 12- Djelic&Sahlin-Andersson,
| | 7-Nov | Adam Nicolopoulos | Project Governance | NJ Asset Evaluation Report other optional readings Miller and Hobbs (2005), OGC (1999)
| | 14-Nov | Adam Nicolopoulos (contd from last week) | See above | See above
| | 21-Nov | N/A | Thanksgiving Recess | N/A
| | 28-Nov | Henry Chan | Dynamics of Bargaining Power in Projects | Das and Teng, Inkpen and Beamish
| | 5-Dec | Ray Levitt | Coordination needs over the life cycle of projects: Matrix Swing / Clockspeed
| Peter Morris,
Charlie Fine Carrillo
| | 12- Dec | Ryan Orr | Regulatory Governance | Andreas_Performance, Andreas_Benchmarking
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* reading material not linked will be available by Ray's office by Thursday 5pm the week before.
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CRGP Seminar Series
Global Projects Seminar - Description
Format: Weekly presentations by experienced industry practitioners and academics.
Topics: Topics vary from week to week, but generally revolve around issues related to large, complex, global development projects at various scales -- i.e. infrastructure development, urban and rural development, the development of brand-new cities in India and China.
Enrollment: Open to researchers, faculty and graduate students from engineering, business, law, sociology, economics, etc.
Credit: 1 unit, CEE245a
Time/Place: Mondays, 12 noon to 1pm, Thornton 110;
Food: CRGP provides pizza and drinks!
For more Information: Email Suad Ali, suada@stanford.edu
Global Projects Seminar - Outline, Autumn Quarter, 2006
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic
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| 25-Sep | Sabeer Bhatia | Founder, Hotmail; Chief Architect & Founder, Nano City
| Planning the development of Nano City: A sustainable
new city at the foothills of the Indian Himalayas
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| 2-Oct | Ron Shumway | Consulting Professor, Berkeley Civil Engineering; Former Director, KPMG Forensic; Former Principal Counsel, Bechtel | Avoiding and settling disputes on international construction projects
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| 6-Oct, Friday, Note: Building 370-Room 370
| Ian Bremmer | Founder & President, Eurasia Group; Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute; Faculty, Columbia University; Previously a National Fellow, Hoover Institution | Understanding and coping with political risk in the context of large infrastructure projects
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| 9-Oct | N/A | Rescheduled to 6-Oct, Friday | N/A
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| 16-Oct | Ryan Orr | Executive Director, CRGP | International infrastructure investment: The legacy & lessons of distressed and failed projects
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| 23-Oct | Andrea Goldstein | Senior Economist, OECD; Formerly with Foreign Investment Advisory Services at World Bank | South-to-South Economic Linkages: The Rise of Investment and Trade between the Developing Countries
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| 30-Oct | Steve Kadivar |
Chairman, Baku World Trade Center JV; Stanford Alumnus | Pioneering the development of a major land development project in Azerbaijan
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| 3-Nov Friday, Note: Building 370-Room 370 | John Horstkoetter |
Planning Project Manager | Case Study: The $25+ Billion Alaska Gas Pipeline Project
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| 6-Nov | Greg Huger | Founder & Managing Partner, AirliePartners | Mapping and communicating with stakeholders effected by oil & mineral extraction projects
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| 13-Nov | Don Evans | Director; President and Group Chief Executive, CH2M HILL (#1 program manager worldwide) | The business of Global Program Management: The Case of the London Olympics
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| 20-Nov | N/A | Stanford is closed. | N/A
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| 27-Nov | Todd Rowland | Zurich North America | The Role of Insurance in Domestic & Global Projects
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| 4-Dec | Karen Seto | Center Fellow, Center for Environ. Science & Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Assistant Professor, Department of Geological & Environ. Science
| Lessons learned from the development of new cities in India & China
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| 11-Dec | Gerald West | Recently retired senior MIGA (World Bank group) official; Adjunct Professor Georgetown University; author (with Ted Moran) of a book series on International Political Risk Management | The role of political risk investment insurance in private infrastructure investment
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