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Essays from our Present Value blog, news from the firm, and our analysts in the press.
Cybersecurity Challenges for the Decade Ahead
Cybersecurity is constantly developing and evolving to new threats and increasingly sophisticated hacks and hackers, with the next decade set to present…
Our Love Letter to Cities: From the Principals of ESI
The intersection of economics, policy, and strategy puts us in all kinds of places for our work. But we at ESI are vocal…
The Future of Transit Agencies: During and After COVID-19
In our last post about COVID-19 and public transit, I discussed potential short run challenges and long run implications for the epidemic.…
COVID-19 Implications for Non-Profits
Turning on the news, or scrolling through your news feed, you are bombarded by the non-stop headlines and announcements. Businesses are closing,…
COVID-19 Implications for Real Estate Through 2020
Well, now we know. Speculation on when the long bull market, economic expansion and real estate boom would come to an end…
COVID-19 Implications for Higher Education
Think back to your most vivid memories of college. (For some of us, “back” is a lot of years ago.) Tailgating before the…
COVID-19 Implications for Transit
Whether you love it or hate it, transit receives public funding because government leaders and a majority of the public believe that…
Learning from Las Vegas: An Innovative Approach to Partnering Through Pilots
Today in Present Value, we highlight a case study from Building a Hyperconnected City. We review Las Vegas’ pilot system, highlighting two…
Planning the Hyperconnected City
In my new capacity as an ESI Senior Advisor I had the opportunity to attend a presentation on ESI Thoughtlab’s global research…
Seven Ways to Solve Philly’s #ConstructionSoWhite Problem
We are a society that has, for the most part, respected the rule of law and has used facts, mixed with some…
The Current State of Cybersecurity Performance
For this Present Value post, members of ESI's thought leadership team sit down with the experts behind Driving Cybersecurity Performance to examine…
Will Automation Lead to Mass Unemployment?
Recent advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence have some experts worrying about the coming obsolescence of the human worker. Some are even…
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