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Raymond E. Levitt

 
Title:Professor
Department(s):Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliation(s):Director, Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects; Academic Director, Advanced Project Management Program, SCPD; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Location:Yang & Yamazaki Envt. and Energy Bldg., Rm 241 473 Via Ortega
Mail Code:4020
Phone:650.723.2677       
Fax:650.725.6014
E-mail: ray.levitt@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/people/Ray.Levitt/
http://crgp.stanford.edu
Administrator: Evelyn (Eve) Martinez-Santayana

Research Statement

Levitt's research program develops theory, methods, and tools to design organization and governance arrangements for project and matrix organization structures in construction and other project-based industries.
There is currently a huge, unmet demand for civil infrastructure projects --roads, railroads, ports, airports, water and sanitation systems-- in both developing and developed countries. Projects to develop and operate civil infrastructure increasingly involve private, public and NGO participants from multiple countries, resulting in clashes between participants' values, cultural norms and laws that can create high "institutional costs" and attendant delays.
Levitt's current research, conducted through the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP), which he founded and directs, is aimed at developing new financing, governance and organizational approaches to enhance the long-term financial, environmental and social sustainability of these critically needed, but institutionally challenging, projects.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD 1975 Stanford
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Executing Your Strategy: How to Break it Down & Get it Done Mark Morgan, Raymond Levitt, William Malek Executing Your Strategy_1211.pdf
Computational Modeling of Organizations Comes of Age Levitt, Raymond E.
Agent-Based Modeling of Knowledge Dynamics Nissen, Mark; Raymond E. Levitt
Interaction Value Analysis: When Structured Communication Benefits Organizations Nasrallah, Walid F.; Raymond E. Levitt; Peter Glynn
Simulating Project Work Processes and Organizations: Toward a Micro-Contingency Theory of Organizational Design Levitt, Raymond E.; Jan Thomsen; Tore R. Christiansen...
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Academic Honors & Awards

1987 Commitment to Life Award, National Safe Workplace Institute.
2000 Computing in Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers.
2002 Dean’s Award for Industry Education Innovation, School of Engineering, Stanford University.
2006 Peurifoy Construction Research Award, American Society of Civil Engineers.
2008 Elected Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers.