real estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry Authors:Karl A. Muller, III, Edward... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

Elon Kohlberg

Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

Keywords: real estate; real estate; real estate; real estate; real estate

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

trouble letting go, he gave us freedom to sink or swim." The brothers have pursued a strategy of maintaining Ayala's core strength—extensive, large-scale, high-end real estate development in and around... View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

one long entrepreneurial adventure. Even down to the present day, more Americans have probably made fortunes from the appreciation of real estate values than from any other source. But land is only the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

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Planned Giving - Alumni

and hedge fund investments may be used to make a gift. Real Estate You can use real estate that you no longer need or enjoy, such as a personal... View Details

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

equivalent amount of food, steel, or information? If much recent growth has resulted from real estate and financial bubbles, will slower growth really have as profound an impact on our way of life and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

21 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

dabbled in entrepreneurship by working part-time as a real estate agent, and was heavily involved as a second-grade tutor and board member for a non-profit organization focused on the Chicago Public Schools... View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

the establishment of the U.S. homeland security hierarchy. Li's personal story is an amazing tale of success. After the death of his father, Li—at age twelve—went to work in a plastics factory. Within a decade he started his own plastics company, which he later... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Courses - Private Capital Project

collaboration with industry entities. The course includes a wide range of projects and features lectures by private equity professionals, serving as a platform for industry relationship building and practical knowledge acquisition. Real... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Estate Understand how real estate differs from the rest of the alternatives space and the types of real estate... View Details

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

were worth. “Lehman had broken two basic investment rules: it bought at the top of the market and it failed to diversify its bets,” Mark T. Williams writes in Uncontrolled Risk . “Commercial real estate... View Details

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

prior to HBS, where he was an investment professional at Artemis Real Estate Partners. He discovered his interest in real estate while pursuing... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

Khair Khana and Ashley’s War MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai (MBA 1987) on his accidental ascent to kiteboarding entrepreneur The Burning Man Project Real estate... View Details

Teaching Interest

Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America

04 Aug 2010
News

A Lonely Crusader

We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year crusade to expose the financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Real Estate; Real Estate

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