Publications

October 2024 (Revised January 2025)
Case

MDH Partners: Evolving a Family Legacy

By: Christina R. Wing and Sarah Mehta

This case is about succession planning for MDH Partners, an Atlanta-based industrial real estate investment firm founded in 2005. When Jeffrey Small, Jr. cofounded MDH Partners, he named the company in honor of his grandfather, Mark Durward (MD) Hodges, an early... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Ventures; Ownership; Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta

November 1999 (Revised November 2000)
Case

Cortlandt Town Center

By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel

CBL & Associates is trying to decide whether to go ahead with the development of a 790,000 square-foot power center with retailers such as Home Depot and Barnes & Noble. The costs are such that the developer needs to renegotiate its land acquisition price. Then the... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Negotiation; Projects; Strategy; Construction Industry; Retail Industry

01 Oct 2000
News

Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes family, including Beverly and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Aug 2008
News

Stylin’ at Gallatin

A note to the 73 incoming MBAs moving into newly renovated Gallatin Hall: You are some lucky ducks. I tagged along on a tour of Gallatin led by principal architect Steve Erwin and project architect Patricia DeLauri, both of Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott, a... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
News

John Dearden Remembered

John Dearden, a professor at HBS for more than thirty years, died in January at a nursing facility in Connecticut, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. An authority on managerial accounting and a pioneer in the use of... View Details

Keywords: John Dearden; Dearden; Ford Motor; Alzeimer; obituary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
News

Putting on the Wheels

more, it's not surprising that conditions may change by the time a facility is ready to open. Instead, what is central to any expansion decision, Hughes argues, is whether or not, over a ten- to twenty-year time frame, a View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

16 Jun 2020
News

What Will the Retail Experience of the Future Look Like?

01 Oct 2001
News

Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

facility the company built five years ago that pumps out millions of mustard bottles a year, and a zippy Web site that invites visitors to join the Mustard Lover's Club. His decision to attend HBS, Plochman notes, was "a fairly radical... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2008 (Revised January 2015)
Teaching Note

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo

Teaching Note for [209012]. View Details

Keywords: Investment; Planning; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Design; Property; Opportunities; Legal Liability; Real Estate Industry; Mexico

13 Feb 2023
News

Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science

been a partner of the School for over two decades, and I am delighted to continue to support the HMS community in its important work by helping to modernize these landmark facilities to keep pace with therapeutics innovation." Bertarelli... View Details

November 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

AppHarvest: Rebuilding the Appalachian Economy Through Agriculture

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, William R. Kerr and Christian Godwin

In 2021, AppHarvest completed construction of a 60-acre indoor farming facility, one of the world’s largest, recorded its first sales, and went public in a multi-billion dollar IPO. Described as “a force of nature,” Jonathan Webb founded the company to bring jobs back... View Details

Keywords: Agricultural; Entrepreneur; Business Startups; Development Economics; Sales; Goals and Objectives; Going Public; Growth Management; Buildings and Facilities; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; North America

April 2000 (Revised August 2002)
Case

The Holland House

By: William J. Poorvu and Michael A. Everett-Lane

In November 1993, Edward Geffner, executive director of Project Renewal, Inc. (PRI), is proposing that his not-for-profit firm develop Holland House at 351 West 42nd Street in New York City into a single- room occupancy hotel for homeless people. He has put together a... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Welfare; Construction; Poverty; Property; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; New York (city, NY)