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Bruce Gago

your goals & career path? In my first year, I was focused on continuing my career in private equity real estate, but in my second year, I identified an entrepreneurial opportunity to provide affordable rental housing in the midst of a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Real Estate; Services

December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
Case

William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide. During World War II, Levitt was eager to build basic housing for the working class—otherwise, Levitt & Sons would have... View Details

Keywords: Demographics; Construction; Business History; Housing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (state, US)

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Educators

Purchase

05 Sep 2019
News

Making the Right Technical Hire

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 17 Oct 2016
HBS Alumni Events

Alumnae Circles Open House: Palo Alto

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

08 Sep 2022
News

Readying for Residence

07 Dec 2012
News

Demand, prices rise for Bay State homes

7 PM – 9 PM EDT, 29 Sep 2016

Alumnae Circles Open House: Washington D.C.

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

7 PM – 9 PM EST, 24 Jan 2017

Alumnae Circles Open House: New York 2017

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

07 Sep 2010
News

China: Looking beyond the boom

Person Page

Presentations and Government Testimony

By: Robin Greenwood

Activist Investors

Prepared testimony before the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials; Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; US House of... View Details

January 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Supplement

Toward Golden Pond (B)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, G.A. Donovan, Nancy Dai and Justin Seth Ginsburgh

Supplements the A case. Provides an additional dilemma for the Rong-D companies with regard to building luxury senior housing in China. View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Age; Investment; Housing; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Luxury; Chengdu

Citation

Purchase

24 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

The collapse of the US housing finance system, the subprime mortgage crisis, was a key contributor to the international economic crisis ignited in 2008. What should government do to prevent such an economic short-circuit in the future? On... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

24 Nov 2009
News

Homebuyer Tax Credits Threaten the FHA

28 Jun 2013
News

How Money Actually Buys Happiness

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

growth, beginning at the provincial level to conform with announced national goals; an economy that is propped up by foreign investment; and a country that is actually using less and less energy—energy use being a reasonably reliable indicator of real growth. In short,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Video

Rao-Innovation

29 Sep 2020
News

James Cash Honored in HBS Building Renaming

Mar 2012
Article

How to Make Finance Work

of the U.S. economy by increasing capital and liquidity requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset... View Details