Therese J. McGuire is Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She has been a faculty member at Kellogg since 2002 and has held various administrative positions, including Director of the Real Estate Program, Chair of the Strategy Department, and Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching.

McGuire's areas of expertise are state and local public finance, fiscal decentralization, property tax limitations, education finance, and regional economic development. She has written about and worked with various governments on state tax reform and on the impact of taxes on economic growth. In 1989, McGuire worked with a blue-ribbon commission and directed a study of revenues and expenditures for the State of Arizona. McGuire was President of the National Tax Association in 1999-2000, as well as the editor of the NTA's academic journal, the National Tax Journal, from 2001 until 2009. Her publications have appeared in the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Regional Science, the Journal of Urban Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, and the Journal of Public Economics.

McGuire has a B.A. with a dual major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

State and local public finance, fiscal decentralization, property taxes, education finance, regional economic development, tax incentives

State and local public finance, public policy

Field Study (STRT-498-0)
Field Studies include those opportunities outside of the regular curriculum in which a student is working with an outside company or non-profit organization to address a real-world business challenge for course credit under the oversight of a faculty member.

Field Study (PACT-498-5)
PACT Field Study

Field Study (PACT-498-0)
PACT Field Study

Public Economics for Business Leaders: State and Local Policy (PACT-480-0)
The goal of this public economics course is to improve understanding of the nature of and potential solutions to the problems with which state and local governments grapple. Key issues include economically depressed neighborhoods and regions, subpar outcomes for students in public K-12 schools, and budget deficits facing cities and other jurisdictions. The class is lecture-based with opportunities in each class session for discussion and debate. There are two group assignments in which students must take the local policy environment into account when making a strategic choice for a firm, which is deciding between two cities for an expansion or relocation. There is a final exam. The course is related to KPPI 470 in that both courses are courses in public economics; KPPI 470 focuses on federal policy and KPPI 480 focuses on state and local policy.

Field Study (MECN-498-0)
Field Studies include those opportunities outside of the regular curriculum in which a student is working with an outside company or non-profit organization to address a real-world business challenge for course credit under the oversight of a faculty member.