Housing Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

of his role in influencing markets. As Fed chairman, when he advised people not very many years ago to take out variable rate mortgages, he aided and abetted the housing market excesses. When he said there... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

mortgage market work? Our notion is that if government guarantees matter at all, they matter in a time of crisis. If there is a housing bust, it will be amplified by the reluctance of private investors to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by communal norms.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

Profile

Jeff Nelson

cooperative. Tthe other involved implementing feed-mix trials to help chicken farmers, with the assistance of micro-financing, apply the most cost-effective approaches to raising marketable poultry. Looking at basic changes As a... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

role in the development, growth, and governance of societies. It reveals how good marketing practices improve the political process and—in turn—the practice of democracy itself. Revisiting Rental Housing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

mentioned the possibility that financial markets are overreacting to the subprime situation. In what way? There has been a contagion effect beyond the housing market that has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

by-the-numbers guy. He rattles off the statistics effortlessly: There are about 133 million housing units in the United States, about 84 million of which are single-family homes. Of those 84 million, about 22 million are available for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case study in how one group has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

market: people offered jobs far afield stay put, reluctant (and unable) to leave their underwater homes. Since the recovery of the housing market will undergird any broader recovery, we must address these... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

01 Sep 2018
News

Escape Hatch

2015 with three tiny houses in the southern New Hampshire woods, Getaway now offers 89 escapes in areas less than two hours from Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, with the goal of expanding to three new View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Nelson Doubleday

1947 as the largest publishing house in the nation with annual sales over $30 million. Doubleday was a keen manager who readily terminated unprofitable enterprises and embraced modern advertising techniques and View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

Fast Answer

Mortgages: data

Where can I find data on mortgages (rates, originations, sub-prime)? Federal Housing Finance Agency: data on current and historical average mortgage rates. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.... View Details

Richard T. Crane

Beginning with a small brass foundry at his Uncle’s lumber yard, Crane built one of the largest plumbing supply companies in the world. Though he diversified into the manufacture of elevators in the late nineteenth century (even controlling 95% of the elevator View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Sep 2005
News

Fixer Upper

almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

Milton Bradley

Bradley created a business that has become synonymous with fun, family games. Initially marketing British games in the US, Bradley went on to patent a variety of new games including Zoetrope or “Wheel of Life” and Historoscope, a... View Details