Project Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

2001
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The Wealth Effects of Large, Project-Financed Investment Decisions

Keywords: Decisions; Project Finance; Investment

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

particular entrepreneurial project can identify key phases of uncertainty, yield a list of potential outcomes of each phase, and provide an assessment of the likelihood of those various outcomes. This kind of thoughtful review constitutes... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Jun 2006
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Silver Lining

Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Utilities

November 1973 (Revised November 1991)
Case

Economy Shipping Co. (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Shipping company must choose among several mutually exclusive investment projects. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Projects; Shipping Industry

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01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Bolivia, to an energy project in India. Classroom discussion is supplemented with workshops (including a four-day finance workshop), study groups, and out-of-class projects. The week-long Poverty Module,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
Case

Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer

By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal

Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details

Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia

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01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

as a means of moving tax-evading money across borders, I conducted a highly structured research project involving 550 business owners and managers in 12 countries. Later, when I came to the Brookings Institution, I traveled to 23... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

22 Feb 2017
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Funding Solar’s Future

and former Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, who now advises the company. Altogether, Double Time has financed 36 solar energy projects, which collectively produce roughly 10% of North Carolina’s solar power and power around 30,000 homes in the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Finance

01 Dec 1998
News

Scott P. Mason Remembered

to the HBS community on the occasion of Mason's death. Mason, who left the School last year to become president and CEO of Investment Technology Group, a New York based financial firm, joined the HBS faculty in 1980. In 1993, he was named the Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

private equity firms and strategic companies. With this effect, a strategic company financing multiple long-term projects won't be as drawn to take advantage of cheap debt just because it's available, for... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
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Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs

tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in personal View Details

June 2015
Teaching Note

Schӧn Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Teaching Note for Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Projects; Health Industry; Germany

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15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

17 Apr 2015
News

A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance