Publications

August 2008 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo

Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit apartment building. Is the market good? Should he sell or lease the units? How should he handle... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Housing; Leasing; Property; Real Estate Industry; Mexico City

March 2005 (Revised May 2011)
Course Overview Note

Conceptual Overview of Real Property

By: Arthur I Segel and Ann Winslow

Real estate represents the largest asset class in the world. Businesses in the United States have over $8.6 trillion of real estate assets on their balance sheets. Excluding housing--worth $16 trillion in the United States--and corporate-owned real estate, there is... View Details

Keywords: Property

June 2004
Case

Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston

By: Diana Barrett and Arthur I Segel

In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues faced a number of challenges in transferring the strategy, including whether the strategy was appropriate for... View Details

Keywords: Housing; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Projects; Decisions; Boston

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2004 (Revised May 2006)
Case

Wells REIT II

By: Arthur I Segel and Dwight Angelini

Dr. Richard Planter, a dentist, asks his financial adviser, Michael Saris, to review an offering memorandum for a new, private real estate investment trust. After reviewing the documents, Saris needs to develop an analytical framework and provide concrete advice... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Investment; Framework; Private Ownership; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

Making Your Presence Felt by Sean Silverthorne Now trumpeted by popular writer Susan Cain as the “high priestess of self-confidence for the self-doubting,” Associate Professor Amy Cuddy nevertheless crumbled... View Details

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

specializing in part on fried chicken and Tex-Mex food. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/712422-PDF-ENG Building Cities: A Technical Note Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. HartlebenHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2012
Supplement

New Songdo City: Use-Typology-Area Worksheet

By: Arthur I. Segel and Oliver O. Hartleben

August 2012 (Revised August 2015)
Technical Note

Building Cities: A Technical Note

By: Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. Hartleben

World population growth and increasing urbanization will require new cities in the future around the world. This technical note attempts to systematize the key design decisions that developers and policy makers alike must make to be able to proceed. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Urban Scope; City; Real Estate Industry

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

July 2006
Teaching Note

Yamanote Kaikan (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Richard Shumway Bennion

May 2004 (Revised June 2006)
Teaching Note

Angus Cartwright III (TN)

By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel

Teaching Note to (9-375-376). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details

November 2002 (Revised February 2009)
Teaching Note

Value Retail (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian

Teaching Note for (9-803-008). View Details

Keywords: Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Performance Effectiveness; Brands and Branding; Planning; Strategy; Luxury; Milan

February 2002
Background Note

Note on Commercial Real Estate Financial Market

By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam

Discusses the recent history of the commercial real estate financial market (pre-1990s-2001). Looks at the shift to more conventional capital markets for commercial real estate debt. View Details

Keywords: History; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Real Estate Industry

July 2016 (Revised November 2016)
Technical Note

Technology and the Future of Office Space

By: Arthur Segel and Andrew Baum

Keywords: WeWork; Office Space; Real Estate; Technological Innovation; Business Offices; Real Estate Industry