Publications

November 1999 (Revised December 2009)
Case

The IBET Pension Fund

Marisa Caris oversees real estate investments for the IBET Pension Fund. She must value each of the existing eight properties and determine a strategy for going forward. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Valuation; Real Estate Industry

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

site for paper: http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol1/iss3/art3/ Identity Negotiation Processes Amidst Diversity: Understanding the Influence of Social Identity and Status Differences Authors:Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heather M. Caruso Publication:In Diversity at Work, edited... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Summer 2012
Article

Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States

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Environmental and Sustainability Issues in Real Estate

Environmental and sustainability issues in real estate from green, brown, and gray fields development to green construction and new patterns of urban planning. View Details

Research Summary

Emerging and Frontier Markets

I continue to spend a great deal of time examining real estate in all aspects from development to securitization in new and growing markets. View Details

July 2013 (Revised October 2014)
Case

Value Retail: Opportunities for European Expansion

Scott Malkin, CEO of Value Retail, a developer and operator of European outlet villages serving luxury brands, is planning on developing a 18,503 m2 open-air outlet village to be built 98 kilometers south of Milan on land he was about to acquire for 7.26 million lira.... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Retail Industry; Milan

July 2006
Teaching Note

Wells REIT II (TN)

April 2004
Teaching Note

IBET Pension Fund, The (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-800-133). View Details

Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Valuation; Strategy

March 2004
Teaching Note

Waltz on the Danube (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-804-021). View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Industry; Hungary; Germany

March 2004 (Revised September 2014)
Teaching Note

Pinckney Street

Teaching Note to (9-813-182). View Details

August 2001 (Revised July 2008)
Technical Note

A Technical Note and Discussion on Real Estate Valuation (IBET): Back of the Envelope (BOE) on Bonhomme Place: A Case within a Case

Discusses real estate valuation. Reviews "back of the envelope" valuation; real estate appraisal methods, including the income method; market comparables and replacement costs; and more complex computer modeling. Also discusses other variables that could influence... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Real Estate Industry

June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee

Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile