Private Property - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

of Nations, is that free markets require certain conditions in order to function—among them, well-defined property rights, enforceable contracts, non-collusion between parties, and complete knowledge that puts everyone on a level playing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
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Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

By: Michael Chu and John Masko

The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Service in 1992, she worked in private sector market research, strategic planning and economic development. Edward Cleveland MBA 1974 Edward Cleveland is the director of Small Business Lending at MultiFunding Business Loan Advisors. Over... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

players? Drawing upon examples of entrant moves into health care—at Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon—this session will help participants understand the landscape of current efforts to embrace consumerism in health care and the significant challenges that remain in... View Details

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

17 Aug 2011
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Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

considering American films had made great inroads in other countries. So she started to investigate a potential link between the disappointing box-office receipts and intellectual property (IP) law. In the case study Hollywood in India:... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents

HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2015 (Revised January 2016)
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To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home

By: Charles F. Wu, Steven Hirsch, Beatrice Liem, Kevin Ryan and Derrick Snyder

Peter and Kate Rose are a young couple looking to buy their first home in the Boston area. They have narrowed down a target list to three homes, but are also considering whether it makes sense to buy a home in the first place. They must make decisions regarding which... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Assets; Investing; Personal Investing; Brokerage; Housing; Property; Private Ownership; Investment; Real Estate Industry; United States; Boston; New England; Massachusetts; North America

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Complex Assets - Alumni

Giving Complex Assets Giving Complex Assets Using assets besides cash to support HBS may offer greater tax benefits and enable you to make a larger gift. How it Works Gifts of complex assets include: Tangible personal property (e.g.... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

09 Jan 2006
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Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Ruling the Waves

in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Mar 2007
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The New Real Estate

Here is a survey of what is happening in these four areas: Record Prices Record prices are being paid for property in the U.S., but also in Europe and Asia. In the U.S. records were broken for the most paid for a single building ($1.8... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host countries to build and run major infrastructure... View Details

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with network effects? How can technology be leveraged to build multisided platforms? How can firms create and capture the value from intellectual View Details

27 May 2008
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Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

global economy. Bad government can only lead to less competitive businesses. To be competitive, countries need to offer businesses sound fiscal and monetary policies, secure property rights, high savings and investment, an absence of... View Details

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2017
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Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies

underwriting, and closing of new equity and high-yield debt investments on behalf of our latest real estate private equity fund. My area of focus is residential investment strategies, including both for-sale and for-rent opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization (TIMO), a View Details

Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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