Local Government Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

15 Dec 2021
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Some Government Programs Just Don’t Work Out. ‘Abandoned’ Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word.

21 Apr 2016
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What both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump get wrong about finance

25 Jun 2019
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The Finance 202: Proposals to tax the wealthy are gaining steam. That could help some 2020 Democrats.

26 Apr 2010
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The Rewards of Virtue. Does Good Corporate Governance pay? Studies Give Contradictory Answers

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

investment in the city’s human capital, requiring work that is much more subtle, nuanced, and difficult to see. This is Chattanooga’s, and the nation’s, toughest challenge to date—one that will require the collaborative focus of leaders from the business, nonprofit,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Government; Government

31 Mar 2020
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Companies Form #paytoday Coalition Encouraging Enterprises And Government Agencies To Pay Their Small Business Suppliers Today

03 Jun 2019
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The Investor Revolution

Keywords: environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues

09 Feb 2015
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Your Board Should Be Full of Activists

Keywords: board activism; corporate governance; leadership; management

25 Feb 2015
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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Keywords: venture capital; Internet; government regulations; entrepreneurship; investment; innovation

21 Nov 2015
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Ruling from the Shadows

Keywords: financial accounting standards; financial oversight; financial regulation; government policy; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

07 Jan 2015
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The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations

Keywords: innovation; developing nations; government policy; economic growth; prosperity; entrepreneurship; Finance; Finance

01 Mar 2015
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Debt-Saddled Municipal Budgets Get a Lifeline

01 Mar 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)

My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. People cheered when the live... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; stock market; investment; finance; Australia; China; Asia; strategy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

23 Aug 2020
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In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine

money in,” she explains. “So they want us personally on the hook with skin in the game for everything we do. That sort of approach is actually what you need in this case. It’s government money, not my money, but the mentality is the... View Details