Innovations in Public-Private Collaboration

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This course considers the origins, motivations for, and recent advances in public-private collaborations and contracting arrangements for achieving public and social program goals. The course begins with an examination of the origins and trends in public-private sector partnerships and the influence of important reforms such as New Public Management on the nature of collaborative arrangements. The course takes a deeper look at the newest innovations–social impacts bonds or pay for success arrangements–and the evidence on their implementation and effectiveness to date. Case examples and studies are used to illustrate challenges encountered in implementing public-private partnerships and performance-based contracts and in achieving accountability for outcomes and impacts. The course includes asynchronous recorded video lectures, synchronous discussions, readings, and applied assignments designed to provide an opportunity to implement learnings from the course.