Publications
Publications
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,246)
- Faculty Publications (539)
- March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
In the summer of 2002, the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental NGO located in Berkeley, California, was engaged in what appeared to be the last hours of a three year campaign to stop a $582 million dam and hydropower project at Bujagali Falls in... View Details
- March 2004
- Teaching Note
Walden Woods (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-897-070). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
- March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2004
- Lecture
Merck, Sharp & Dohme Argentina, Inc." Speaker. "Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate
By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
- December 2003 (Revised March 2005)
- Background Note
Who is a Professional?
By: Ashish Nanda
Many occupations lay claim to professional status. Business executives, social workers, musicians, sportsmen, and academics describe their occupations as "professions". Office assistants call themselves "administrative professionals". Obviously, not all occupations... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Dewberry Capital
In 2003, key executives of Dewberry Capital, a fast-growing, Atlanta-based real estate company, are evaluating their growth strategy and the resultant organizational issues. John Dewberry, the entrepreneurial founder of the firm, has developed a portfolio of... View Details
- October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
- Exercise
The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
This short fictional case forms the basis of a team decision-making exercise. The case, inspired by a real decision facing a major telecommunications company, describes a cross-functional management team convened by the CEO for the purpose of developing a... View Details
- September 2003 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Holt Lunsford Commercial
By: Arthur I Segel and John H. Vogel Jr.
Holt Lunsford is debating how to grow his Dallas-based commercial real estate services firm and how to advise a long-time client who is wondering whether to lease or buy an industrial warehouse. Focuses on the highly competitive and increasingly institutionalized $50... View Details
- September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Hearthside Homes
By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
Investigates the "controllability problem" inherent in bonus systems. Ideally, an incentive system accurately measures performance in areas that the individual can control. But most measures are either too broad, including factors outside the influence of the employee,... View Details
- August 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Waltz on the Danube
By: Arthur I Segel, Vincent Dessain and Anais Loizillon
Describes the intricate parts of an early real estate deal from the standpoint of the developer including feasibility analysis, market choice, acquisition of land, project development, design and construction issues, investment returns, and equity financing issues.... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Management; Property; Project Finance; Real Estate Industry; Germany; Hungary
- June 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Highlands' Garden Village
By: Arthur I Segel, Eve Bould and Hank Midgley
It was March 2003 and Chuck Perry was awaiting the arrival of his New York-based business partner, Jonathan Rose. He and Rose had begun Highlands' Garden Village, their latest mixed-use, mixed-income development project. In 1996, they had optioned the unused Elitch... View Details
- 14 Feb 2003
- Keynote Speech
Leadership, Values, and Organization." Speaker. "Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate
By: Lynn S. Paine
- January 2003 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Newport Creamery (A)
By: Paul Marshall and Todd Thedinga
Describes the operating challenges of Newport Creamery, a Rhode Island-based chain of ice cream restaurants. Profiles the company's transition from longtime family ownership to a real estate developer, the developer's expansion strategy, and the company's subsequent... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Intrawest Corporation
By: Frances X. Frei, Daniel Rethazy and Corey B. Hajim
Describes the dilemma surrounding Intrawest's growth strategy for the future. The organization must decide whether to continue its present development tactic or use its expertise to diversify its resort products in terms of location and type or spin off associated... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
The Arts Property and Hotel
By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian
Julio Martinez finds himself as one of the owners of the Arts Hotel Project in Barcelona, Spain. The 455-room hotel is managed by the Ritz Carlton and is in a 44-story tower along Barcelona's beachfront. Julio needs to figure out a strategy to maximize his investment,... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised August 2020)
- Technical Note
Real Estate Finance: A Technical Note Based on 'Bonnie Road'
By: Arthur I Segel
Supplement to (813-186). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Investment Evaluation; Property; Acquisition; Finance; Analysis; Real Estate Industry; New Jersey
- July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
- Background Note
Note on the Evolution of Retail in the United States
By: Arthur I Segel
Covers the evolution of retail real estate in the United States. Specifically covers types of retail centers, such as neighborhood, community, regional, and super-regional as well as the recent phenomenon of the 1990s to 2002 of the growing emergence of value retail,... View Details
- July 2002
- Teaching Note
Discount & Hawkins Critical Moments: Full Transcript, TN
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Teaching Note for (9-902-124). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
- May 2002
- Case
Aspen Financial
By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam
Jack and Bruce Aspen must decide how they want to grow their commercial real estate finance company during a time of tremendous change in the industry. View Details
- April 2002
- Case
The Cardon Family
By: William J. Poorvu and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam
Wil Cardon is the third-generation steward of his family's real estate land development business. He grapples with issues of business structure, intergenerational business, compensation, and family values. This case includes in-depth discussion of the land development... View Details