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Nathan Cummings
Consolidated Foods a full-fledged conglomerate, acquiring companies such as the Fuller Brush Company, Abbey Rents and Tyco Industries. Cummings’ efforts were successful, and by the end of his tenure, Consolidated Foods was a $2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- June 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Background Note
Tenant and Landlord Rights
By: Arthur I Segel, Jeff Mandelbaum and Armen Panossian
Certain key principles govern the landlord-tenant relationship in both commercial and residential settings. Because most property law is state specific, this note provides an overview of how many states would generally analyze a particular situation or relationship. View Details
Keywords: Renting or Rental; Leasing; Rights; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Relationships; Real Estate Industry
Segel, Arthur I., Jeff Mandelbaum, and Armen Panossian. "Tenant and Landlord Rights." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-161, June 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
John C. Emery, Sr.
Emery was a pioneer in the early air freight business – first renting space on existing carrier routes and later developing a full line of dedicated aircraft. For almost 40 years, Emery was the largest freight carrier in the world. During... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
to look at the budget, there is some question as to whether the wealthy should continue to have a bite of that cow. Q: Do you think more people these days are content to rent? A: There have been a variety of surveys on the rent versus own... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Tackling the Housing Crisis One Renovation at a Time
Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is defying the odds and creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network of... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Renting or Rental; Corporate Governance; Global Strategy; Failure; Singapore; Hong Kong
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Akash Gupta
wouldn’t be seeing Mom again. I thought that she would eventually come back, not knowing that her inability to pay rent was the result of years spent fighting an invisible battle. Only later did I find out that her steady decline into... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
advantage of this maneuver is real: strategic defaulters save money. Sometimes they can rent a comparable home. But they risk a lower credit rating, which could bar them from buying another home for up to seven years. Understandably, most... View Details
- 27 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec. Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
cofounder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004) and Rent the Runway founder Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009). “We’re calling it the anti-‘Shark Tank’ because everyone is already a winner,” said Blau. “They’re getting funding from Able, and we’re... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
disposable as a BIC pen. Small wonder they’ll react as owners.” DRE added that job renting is code for job instability. “When you kill the opportunity to own a job, it is only a matter of time before the economic circle shrinks to (the)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
the government could discount land prices, tying the discount to a developer's provision of affordable units. We do that here. The government could raise density, allowing developers to build higher—while reserving a percentage of units to be View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
delivery—for free. If you run the video store, you worry about the customer who comes in specifically to rent The Matrix but leaves annoyed and empty handed because the video isn't on the shelves today. According to Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Working Paper
Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
By: Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure program that employs "investable" tax credits to spur production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Housing; Renting or Rental; United States
Desai, Mihir A., Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal. "Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14149, June 2008.
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
over the same time. (It should be noted that over shorter periods, some emerging markets such as the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the SENSEX index for the Bombay market last year grew by 84 percent and 48.5 percent respectively.) Investors are witnessing improving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
kids); another is Arrive, a venture powering the circular economy that allows any brand or retailer to rent their inventory. No place is perfect, Berardi concedes. Yet he’s optimistic the local public-private discourse is healthy enough... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna