The sluggish global economy -- accompanied by an intensified scrutiny of both corporate behavior and government action -- has created a challenging en...
Donald Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012
Chicago knows from experience how partnerships can sour. Emanuel's Infrastructure Trust, if done right, could be a new model for rebuilding urban infrastructure. Done wrong, it'll be just another hand off of public assets to private control.
Perry Yeatman | Posted 05.01.2012
When it comes to multi-stakeholder partnerships, knowing what YOU want is the right starting point. But even that isn't enough to succeed. Here are five more lessons we've learned from our work that might be helpful.
Michael Likosky | Posted 04.26.2012
Manufacturers need state-of-the-art logistics to bring raw materials into their plants and then finished products to global markets. Moreover, Chicago must be a high-capacity transportation hub for the sake of regional growth.
Jonathan Tisch | Posted 04.17.2012
Across America, innovative public-private efforts are showing our nation's leaders not only how to upgrade aging infrastructure, but, more importantly, how to pay for it.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.02.2012
Public colleges can't do it all, at least not when the economy is weak. More public colleges are farming out the non-educational aspects of their c...
Michael Likosky | Posted 04.02.2012
For too long, the State of New York has been a patchwork balkanized economy. Our difficulty in working together -- across region, locality, sector, party, branch of government, etc. -- has been both the result and cause of this lack of state-wide economic cohesion.
Tom Tresser | Posted 04.02.2012
Mayor Emanuel wants us to trust him with the future of all of Chicago's public assets.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.14.2012
The Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion bipartisan transportation bill in a 74-22 vote Wednesday, handing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signi...
Amb. Robin Renee Sanders | Posted 05.06.2012
What is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and what value does this development paradigm have for Africa?
Beth Comstock | Posted 04.24.2012
How do we spur innovation in a notoriously complicated industry like health care? It's hard to do, especially when you consider the spectrum of needs and diverse players.
Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.17.2012
The convergence of a birthday with Valentine's Day (which has been happening to me now for 81 years in a row!) is both a reminder and indicator of cha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.20.2011
NEW YORK -- A bipartisan transportation bill sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer would dramatically expand a federal program that finances "innovative" tr...
Bridget van Kralingen | Posted 02.17.2012
Collaboration between the public and private sectors has long served as the model for addressing major challenges faced by the U.S. But in today's political and economic environment, is it a thing of the past?
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.13.2011
NEW YORK -- When Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a $320-million reduction in the downstate payroll tax on Monday, the MTA, which runs New York City's sub...
Joseph Bobrow | Posted 01.28.2012
In the midst of today's epic congressional gridlock with its potentially disastrous impacts on the well being of our entire country, Monday brought a bright spot; President Obama signed into law the VOW to Hire Heroes Act.
Michael Likosky | Posted 10.29.2011
An Infrastructure Bank and other public-private partnership initiatives can spur private investment in the physical, social, health and human services, traditional and renewable energy, and mining projects necessary to create jobs.
Michael Likosky | Posted 09.24.2011
If you believe the polls, Americans favor some sort of structural adjustment so long as it doesn't forever alter either our basic social contract or sense of rugged individualism. For this reason, it is likely that a solution will emerge in Washington.
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.31.2011
Over the last two days, a group of businesses, non-profits, and public officials came together in Chicago at the Clinton Global Initiative to find ways putting Americans back to work in a way that contributes to everyone's bottom line.
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.24.2011
In a time of budgetary crisis, an Infrastructure Bank can finance an infrastructure platform for surge manufacturing.
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 08.24.2011
PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama called on Friday for a "renaissance in American manufacturing" that would replace shuttered steel mills with...
Joel Epstein | Posted 08.23.2011
I'm almost as delighted as Hizonner himself that Mayor Villaraigosa is the new president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. What better perch from which to pitch the country on the merits of America Fast Forward?
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.22.2011
Zakaria begins to make the case for Republican and Tea Party support. Let's flesh it out a bit.
Ward Cates | Posted 08.17.2011
As the world celebrates the latest scientific findings in the fight against AIDS/HIV, we are reminded that the public-private partnership involves being able to both "do good" and also "do well".
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.09.2011
By most accounts, our representatives in Washington will find a way of raising the debt ceiling to avert financial crisis. However, our deficit is not going away anytime soon.
Stanley S. Litow | Posted 05.02.2012