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FALL 2011

Overview of Core MIA/MPA Workshops for Fall 2011 (excluding EPD, EPS)

Course Number

Client

Project Syllabus

Advisor

SIPAU9000.005

Energy through Enterprise (E+Co)

Building E-Learning Platform for Developing Country Energy Enterprises

Philip J. Larocco & Gina Rodolico

SIPAU9000.004

Huron Consulting Group

Analysis of Extra-Regional Mergers & Acquisitions by Energy Companies from East Europe and Eurasia

Adam L. Shrier

SIPAU9000.003

 

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Evaluation of International Development Programs in Less-Developed Countries and Improving Governance and Security

Barbara Nunberg

SIPAU9000.001

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Investor Mapping for Development Projects in Education, Health, and Climate Change Space in Latin America

Adam Quinton

SIPAU9000.002 NYC Mayor's Office of Operation Analysis and Evaluation of 311 Data for Risk Assessment

 

Joe Versace & Olle Folke


SPRING 2011

Overview of Core MIA/MPA Workshops for Spring 2011 (excluding EPD, EPS)

Course Number

Client

Project Syllabus

Advisor

SIPAU9000.001

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

What is the optimal global energy mix in terms of productivity for the world economy? How can energy policy achieve this?

AJ Goulding

SIPAU9000.002

Booz Allen Hamilton

Climate Change Adaptation: Assessing impacts to regions and organizations

Shiv Someshwar

SIPAU9000.037

 

Brookfield Renewable Power

Assessment of China’s future economic growth path and the impact on commodities prices

AJ Goulding

SIPAU9000.036

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

Exploring the Role of Chambers in the Health Insurance Exchange

Louise Cohen

SIPAU9000.003 Center for Naval Analyses Scenarios for the 10-year outlook for maritime activities in the Middle East Gulf, implications for naval operations of US forces

Adam Shrier
SIPAU9000.004

Century Foundation

How does power affect the ideology and behavior of Islamist groups? A Comparative Policy Analysis

Thanassis Cambanis

SIPAU9000.005 Central Intelligence Agency Center for the Study of Intelligence: Managing Covert Action Austin Long
SIPAU900.006 Citibank, ICG Risk Management The Implications of the Basel III Proposals Merit E. Janow
SIPAU9000.007

Clinton Global Initiative

The Gulf Coast from Disaster to Prosperity Action Network - Building a Platform for the Reestablishment of Trust

John Williams

SIPAU9000.008

Congressional Research Services

Loan Servicers and the Mortgage Crisis

Alicia Ogawa

SIPAU9000.009

Department of Defense, Health Affairs

Evaluation of the Patient Centered Medical Home for implementation across the Military Health System (MHS)

Paul Goebel

SIPAU9000.010

Internews

Mapping Donor Decision Making on Media Development

Anya Schiffrin

SIPAU9000.011

Energy and Development Capstone Workshop

Energy and Development Capstone Workshop

Ellen Morris

Phil LaRocco

SIPAU9000.012

Environmental Protection Agency

A Comprehensive Analysis of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Programs in the Manufacturing Sector and their Effectiveness at Obtaining Environmental Results

Kathy Callahan

SIPAU9000.013

Freedom House

Avoiding the 'resource curse': An analysis of the impact of hydrocarbon wealth on democratic governance and recommendations for the way forward

Jenik Radon

SIPAU9000.014 Fund for the City of New York Examination of the fund's partner program in a national context,  benefits to small, social entrepreneurial partners and recommendations to strengthen these projects Ester Fuchs
SIPAU9000.015 Global Financial Integrity Tracing the Finances of Ill-Gotten Gains: Mexico and the U.S: Patterns and Potential Means of Tracking Illicit Financial Flows between Mexico and the U.S.
SIPAU9000.016 Good Shepherd Services, Human Services Workshop Human Services Workshops Assessment/ Reorganization Plan Kevin Kelly
SIPAU9000.018 Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch: Crime, Punishment, and Undocumented Aliens
Paul W. Thurman
SIPAU9000.020

Inter-American Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank:  Impact Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Adam Quinton

SIPAU9000.022

International Rescue Committee

An Analysis of the Shrinking Partnership of USAID with Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Howard R. Williams

SIPAU9000.023

Moody's Sovereign Risk Group

Long-Term Contingent Liabilities and Sovereign Risk: the Fiscal Impact of an Aging Population

Ailsa Roell

SIPAU9000.024

NYC Mayor's Office of Capital Projects

Increasing Project Planning and Scheduling Certainty for Critical Infrastructure Projects

Avi Schwartz

SIPAU9000.025

NYC Mayor's Office with Deputy Mayor Goldsmith

Analysis and Evaluation of 311 Data for Risk Assessment

Joe Versace

Olle Folke

SIPAU9000.026 Newark Department of Economic and Housing Development Developing Worker-owned Cooperatives in Newark, NJ Ivan Gonzalez
SIPAU9000.027

Broadway Housing Communities

A Design Approach to Solving Recycling Challenges for the Largest Public Housing Authority in North America

Nilda Mesa

SIPAU9000.029

RAND Corp.

Assessment of Future Geopolitical and Security Trends in the Central Asia-Caspian Region

Alex Cooley

SIPAU9000.030

World Newsmedia Innovations

World Association of Newspapers: Future and Change

Anya Schiffrin

SIPAU9000.031 Permanent Mission of Haiti to the United Nations/ the Social Science Research Council The Haitian Diaspora in the United States and the relationship between International Migration and National Development Jason Schachter
SIPAU9000.032

United Nations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)

The  Role of Natural Resources in Sustainable Peace in Sudan

Elisabeth Lindenmayer
SIPAU9000.019 United Nations Environment Program

Payment for Ecosystem Services in Rural Haiti

Marc Levy
SIPAU9000.033

US State Department

Effectiveness of United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions in Combating Terrorism

Stuart Gottlieb

SIPAU9000.034

US State Department

U.S. Provincial Diplomatic and Reconstruction Team, Kirkuk, Iraq:  Establishing a Negotiating Framework for Resolving Kirkuk’s Status

Gabriel Escobar

SIPAU9000.035

 

World Bank

The G-20, Economic Development, and Trade

Akbar Noman

José Antonio Ocampo