ESI Blog: Present Value
Present Value was created as a platform for sharing ideas, discussing our interests and improving connections with our community. Each week, we invite guest contributors from the ranks of our senior advisors, industry experts, and thought leaders.
This week in Present Value, ESI’s Lee Huang (LH) speaks with local leaders to identify how they are helping people access capital, overcome barriers, and create thriving communities. LH: Markita, let’s start off with you, who does Compass Working Capital serve, what barriers do they face in accessing capital, and how do you help them […]
ESI’s Lee Huang (LH) discusses access to capital, overcoming barriers, and more with Markita Morris-Louis (MML), Chief Strategy Officer for Compass Working Capital. LH: Who does Compass Working Capital serve, what barriers do they face in accessing capital, and how do you help them overcome those barriers? MML: Assets are a stronger predictor than income […]
ESI’s Lee Huang sits down with Della Clark, President of The Enterprise Center, to discuss access to the capital and the work The Enterprise Center focuses on. LH: What’s the vision behind the new equity fund, and how does it represent a natural outgrowth of your almost 30 years of work at The Enterprise Center? […]
ESI’s Lee Huang discusses access to capital with Lou Rodriguez, CEO and founder of Rodriguez Consulting LLC and Chair of the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. LH: From your vantage point as chair of the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, how is the region doing in providing equitable access to capital? What are […]
Lee Huang, Senior Vice President & Principal of ESI, hosts a Q&A with Andrew Speizman, Chief Financial Officer, and Frank Linnehan, Senior Director of Corporate Strategy, of MFR Consultants to discuss the City’s annual fair lending study and more. LH: What is the annual study that ESI and MFR do for the Office of […]
ESI’s Lee Huang hosts a Q&A discussion with Vandell Hampton, President and CEO of True Access Capital, discussing True Access Capital’s mission and their work around Philadelphia. LH: You recently took your organization through a renaming and rebranding. What does True Access Capital mean, and why was it important to make these changes? VH: We […]
Last week in Present Value, our partners at ANBOUND gave us Part 1 of our blog series on state and local government policy in China. For Part 2, Senior Researcher He Jun gives us his thoughts on the distribution of power between federal, state, and city governments, and economic competitiveness. To read Part 1 of […]
This week and next, Present Value offers insights from our Beijing-based think tank partners ANBOUND. Researcher Wei Hongxu and Senior Researcher He Jun give us their thoughts on state and local government policy in China, comparing it to government policy in the U.S. Stay tuned for part two to be released next week! In America, […]
We are excited to announce the launch our latest multi-client research program, Driving Cybersecurity Performance. The nine-month long follow-up to last year’s global study, The Cybersecurity Imperative, is distinct from other research, as it will provide executives with a comprehensive analysis of the ROI of cybersecurity investments. What We’ve Learned Despite increased investment in cybersecurity, […]
If you’ve been following our Philadelphia Housing Index (PHI) posts, you may have noticed one neighborhood we have not spent a lot of time talking about has been Brewerytown. But in the last 2 years, this neighborhood has seen a significant rise in its PHI and growth in the home sales activity that it’s worth […]