Project Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2017
News

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

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

17 Nov 2022
News

Blockchain for Good

Research and Innovation Department, “will play a significant role in accelerating this worldwide advancement.” Dyer’s focus on social mission also tracks the evolution of her career. Driven by her family’s financial instability early in her life, she set out on a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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
News

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

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

capital, project management expertise and domain knowledge of corporations to work on financing and de-risking the various solutions for climate change. 2. Rather than companies acting individually, we need... View Details

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Finance; Finance

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

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

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Robin Greenwood | Working Knowledge

taught in both years of the MBA curriculum as well as the PhD program. CV Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project Link to List of Outside Activities Link to Google Scholar Read full bio View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

day’s press reports. I have internal meetings with my staff and then, externally, with various American interests, other embassies, Moroccan ministries, and so on. About 20 percent of my time is spent in the field visiting local Moroccan officials and U.S. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Finance

13 May 2013
Blog Post

"I never thought I would be a business person until…”

areas ranging from shipping, shipbuilding, industrial plants and energy. I was asked to join the in-house consulting unit that was established right after I joined STX. Later on, I progressed on to a more finance related role dealing with... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

Belsky has compiled their most powerful (and often counterintuitive) practices, such as generating ideas in moderation, reducing all projects to just three main components, encouraging fighting within your team, and seeking competition... View Details

February 2004
Teaching Note

Sampa Video, Inc. (TN)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Peter Tufano

Teaching Note to (9-201-094). View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Projects; Valuation; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Cost of Capital; Service Industry

Citation

Purchase

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

about what Madhav should do next. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110001-PDF-ENG An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2009 Update Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal

BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details