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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
bit of tarnish. Thanks to years of mismanagement by the administration he was voted to replace, Cranston’s bond rating was reduced to B, the lowest of any municipality in America. In an opinion piece in the Providence Journal (November...
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- 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 View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in corrupt View Details
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Fixed Income Research: bond data, ratings, and reports
around the world, including public finance and structured finance issues. Provides S&P credit ratings and detailed reports explaining these credit recommendations. Moody's Academic Sign up...
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- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
company or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in corrupt View Details
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by Eric Werker
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
the Complaint Department The municipal needs of Boston residents vary by the season. “In winter, it’s snow,” says Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), the city’s chief digital officer. In spring, it’s potholes. In summer, it’s potholes and student...
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Dan Morrell
- 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),...
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by Ann Cullen
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
New subways or water projects need to be repaid from usage fees over the very long term. London or Beijing may upgrade a transit line to accommodate the rush of athletes and visitors, but these municipalities can and should find a way to...
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- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and...
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by Kristen Senz
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
mutual funds, with 11 categories of investments, including global stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, real estate, natural resources, and treasury bonds. The fund also automatically rebalances itself over time just as mainstream...
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- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
complex web of government structures and competing administrative mandates that make urban planning particularly difficult. The first problem is that guidance on climate mitigation and adaptation at the state and federal level isn’t translated to the View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
provide to municipalities free of charge, as a condition of franchise approval. "Narrowcasting" would supplement broadcasting with an array of arts and educational programming. Jeffersonian democracy would bloom as cable...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for eleven years at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of...
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- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
supply expenses are provided. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55343 Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds By: Baker, Malcolm, Daniel Bergstresser, George...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global...
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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green...
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Sean Silverthorne