Public Private Partnerships

Good Corporate Citizenship Sustains Our Society Through Changing Times

Stanley S. Litow | Posted 05.02.2012

Stanley S. Litow

The sluggish global economy -- accompanied by an intensified scrutiny of both corporate behavior and government action -- has created a challenging en...

Fool Us Twice? The Peril of Rahm Emanuel's Public Private Partnerships

Donald Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012

Donald Cohen

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.

Lessons Learned From the Frontlines of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

Perry Yeatman | Posted 05.01.2012

Perry Yeatman

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.

Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Infrastructure Trust

Michael Likosky | Posted 04.26.2012

Michael Likosky

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.

How to Pay for Infrastructure

Jonathan Tisch | Posted 04.17.2012

Jonathan Tisch

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.

Public Colleges Outsourcing Some Services As States Slash Budgets

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...

Governor Cuomo's New York Works

Michael Likosky | Posted 04.02.2012

Michael Likosky

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.

Don't Trust the Infrastructure Trust

Tom Tresser | Posted 04.02.2012

Tom Tresser

Mayor Emanuel wants us to trust him with the future of all of Chicago's public assets.

Matt Sledge

Senate Passes Bipartisan Transportation Bill With Surprising Dig At Wall Street

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...

The Value, Role, & Impact of Public-Private Partnerships for Africa's Development

Amb. Robin Renee Sanders | Posted 05.06.2012

Amb. Robin Renee Sanders

What is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and what value does this development paradigm have for Africa?

Old Dogs, New Tricks: Embracing Collaboration to Drive Health Care Innovation

Beth Comstock | Posted 04.24.2012

Beth Comstock

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.

The Sinews of Society Are Changing

Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.17.2012

Frank A. Weil

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...

Matt Sledge

Barbara Boxer's Transportation Bill Would Drop Environmental Criteria In Much-Touted TIFIA Loan Program

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...

Public-Private Partnerships Are Key to U.S. Competitiveness

Bridget van Kralingen | Posted 02.17.2012

Bridget van Kralingen

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?

Matt Sledge

Andrew Cuomo's 'Public-Private Partnerships' Can't Save The MTA, Advocates Say

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...

Plays Well With Others?

Joseph Bobrow | Posted 01.28.2012

Joseph Bobrow

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.

Bipartisanship Post-Labor-Day: P3s and a National Infrastructure Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.29.2011

Michael Likosky

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.

Agreeing on Austerity: It's Harder Than It Looks

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.24.2011

Michael Likosky

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.

Clinton Global Initiative America: Problem-Solvers Not Provocateurs

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.31.2011

Michael Likosky

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.

Let Wave Two Begin -- Obama, Geithner and an Infrastructure Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.24.2011

Michael Likosky

In a time of budgetary crisis, an Infrastructure Bank can finance an infrastructure platform for surge manufacturing.

Obama To Announce A New High-Tech Manufacturing Effort

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...

America Stumbles Forward

Joel Epstein | Posted 08.23.2011

Joel Epstein

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?

Fareed Zakaria's Republican Case for a National Infrastructure Bank

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.22.2011

Michael Likosky

Zakaria begins to make the case for Republican and Tea Party support. Let's flesh it out a bit.

A Call For Public-Private Partnerships For HIV Prevention

Ward Cates | Posted 08.17.2011

Ward Cates

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".

America: 21st Century's First Emerging Economy

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.09.2011

Michael Likosky

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.