Management Paper
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I’m looking for a quote for an 8 page management paper. The instructions are attached below. I have to analyze a case and use information from my class to support it. I can provide more info if needed.
Leading and Managing Organizational Networks (PLCY 698T)
Cross-sector Governance
Fall 2020
Examination, Part I: Long lead take-home paper
The Purple Line is a Maryland 16 mile light rail line connecting New Carrolton in Prince George’s County to Bethesda in Montgomery County. It will connect to Metro, MARC, Amtrak and bus lines. Construction of the Purple Line has been delayed for many reasons, but especially by persistent resistance through legal challenges. Governors of both parties and local governments have supported the Purple Line. Opposition has been largely from local groups
The Purple line is owned by the Maryland Department of Transportation, Maryland Transit Administration. It is a public-private partnership (P3) in which private companies were to help finance and construct the line and would receive a return over the long term. In 2016, the Purple Line Transit Partners (PLTP) competed and won the right to build, operate and maintain the system for 36 years. The PLTP, a consortium of three companies (Meridiam, Star America and Fluor Enterprises) signed a $5.6 billion, 876 page contract with Maryland to construct the Line over six years and then, operate and maintain it. Federal funding was secured for the project.
In September 2020, PLTP notified the state that it would cease work and terminate the contract. This step culminated a dispute over $800 million of expenses which resulted from the significant construction delays. The State took the position that the cost overruns were the responsibility of the contractor while PLTP argued that they were Maryland’s responsibility.
Efforts to revive the P3 have been ongoing and successful resolution offers advantages for the concessionaire, PLTP, and its investors, their banks and local support groups, and for the State and its leaders and supporting stakeholders. The Fall of 2020 is a crucial time for this effort.
Instructions: Using learning from this course, and the facts of the Purple line case discovered by you through some internet research, each student will analyze the case and write a four (4) page (MAXIMUM) identification of the governance problems involved in this case and a full analysis of the cross-sector management and leadership challenges involved (Part I).
Recognizing that the Purple Line project is not the only cross-sector project in the State, after your Purple Line problem analysis above, please use learning from the class to make suggestions (Part II) for ways similar future problems could be prevented, ameliorated, or solved and ways in which future cross-sector efforts could be improved. (MAXIMUM 4 pages in addition to the MAXIMUM 4 pages written for Part 1.)
For both sections (MAXIMUM 8 pages) you do not need to seek tools, techniques and trends beyond those studied in the readings, cases, lectures and class discussion in the course. You will need to study the facts of the Purple Line case from generally available reports in the press. After securing the factual base for the case, use specific information and insights from the course with appropriate citation from LS, D&Z and other ALL readings as well as from supplemental readings, reports, the cases, the lectures and discussions. You will be evaluated on the adequate, yet concise, factual basis of your Purple Line case description, but much more importantly, on the fulsomeness of your use of the course to inform your analysis and advice.