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- 16 Jul 2018
- News
Municipalities could benefit from issuing more green bonds
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Debt-Saddled Municipal Budgets Get a Lifeline
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
- 05 Jan 2014
- News
Boston must rein in retiree health plans
- 05 Jul 2018
- News
China’s new $15bn tech fund emulates SoftBank’s Vision Fund
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
How America Grew
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and deeper into insuring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
of laughter from the burly men sporting crew cuts and gold DSNY shields who had gathered around her conference table. (The agency employs approximately 7,500 uniformed workers and 2,500 civilian staffers.) “I really like the modernizing piece of it,” Tisch says of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
has received rave reviews from industry experts for its financial performance. It has built specialized lines of business in institutional investments, municipal finance, and small-business lending. A regional leader in technological... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
surface, a green roof, or supporting solar panels or wind turbines when possible,” Carty says. “And building wastewater can be treated and reused for flushing toilets and watering plants, for example, which has the added benefit of diverting water discharge from View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
freezing their eggs for later use. The first prize in the social enterprise track went to SunEdison, a company that facilitates the financing and installation of on-site solar-energy projects for commercial, institutional, and municipal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing services... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
new project, with section mate Andrew Schwaitzberg (MBA 2014), aims to replace conventional streetlamps with LED lamps for free in return for 80 percent of the cost-savings over eight years. Yarlagadda and Schwaitzberg are working with Nashik View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, baseball... View Details
Keywords: Finance