Publications

January 1981 (Revised January 1982)
Case

Boise Cascade: Manufactured Housing Division, Lafayette Region (B)

By: Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Housing; Construction Industry

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Conference Presentation

U.S. Housing Market: What is Next? (BNY Mellon)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas

Keywords: Housing; United States

2007
Book

Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America's Cities and States

By: Henry G. Cisneros, Jack F. Kemp, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Kent W. Colton

In Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America's Cities and States, Henry Cisneros, Jack Kemp, Kent Colton, and Nicolas Retsinas put political views aside to address the impediments to housing and homeownership at the state and local... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Local Range; Housing; Property; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States

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01 Sep 2015
News

Is the Auction House of the Future Online?

auction house Paddle8 to handle the high-profile sale. They “understand the concept of the new form of art,” said Wu-Tang chief producer RZA of the four-year-old company, cofounded by a team including Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA... View Details

Keywords: April White; Wu-Tang Clan

1976
Other Unpublished Work

Simulation of the Market Effects of Housing Allowance

By: Dutch Leonard, Gregory K. Ingram and Robert Schafer

Keywords: Housing; Markets; Mathematical Methods

1981
Other Unpublished Work

Housing Regulation in Cambridge: Its Goals and Effects

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

1976
Other Unpublished Work

Barriers to Equal Opportunity in Rural Housing Markets

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Housing; Equality and Inequality; Rural Scope

February 2022 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Sekisui House and the In-Home Early Detection Platform

By: John D. Macomber and Akiko Kanno

To address an aging population and sales declines, a major Japanese homebuilder considers pivoting to provide and support an in-home health detection platform, in competition with tech companies. This case considers the point of view of major builders regarding how... View Details

Keywords: Voice Assistants; Architecture; Smart Home; Aging Society; Digitalization; Real Estate; Home Automation; Sensors; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Health Care and Treatment; Housing; Age; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Health Industry; Japan

24 Apr 2014
News

Investing in a community's housing and cultural life

Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details

June 2014 (Revised November 2015)
Case

Via Verde

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas, Philip Berkman, Sean Liu, Jared Katseff and Shawn Tuli

Developers Jonathan Rose and Adam Weinstein were trying to determine which of three proposals to submit to the city of New York in response to a RFP to create an affordable housing project in the South Bronx. The site, referred to as Via Verde, was a 1.5-acre... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Rose Companies; Affordable Housing; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States

January 2015
Teaching Note

Lighting the Way at the Manor House Hotel

By: Samuel G. Hanson

December 2010
Teaching Note

Back to the Future: Redeveloping Unilever House (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris

Teaching Note for 211038. View Details

Keywords: London

January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio Rotemberg

This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States