• 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

• 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

• 28 Apr 2021
• Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

• 10 Oct 2023
• Cold Call Podcast

Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder’s Journey

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Real Estate; Real Estate

• Web

General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

financial obligations. Lehman Brothers activities at this time also centered on the industrialization of the South, including railroad, textile, mining, and real estate enterprises. When Mayer Lehman passed... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

developing, or investing in real estate. Due to its rigor, it will be more than sufficient for those thinking about real estate as a hobby or for those considering View Details

• 09 Jun 2015
• News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

information networking. “I was a linear thinker,” he says. “After being exposed to the case method and a diverse group of peers, I began to think more broadly and understand the importance of relationships in business.” A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Au... View Details

• 23 Oct 2018
• First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718511-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-126 Baupost Group: Finding a Margin of Safety in London Real Estate No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

• March 2023 (Revised January 2025)
• Case

Wilshire Lane Capital

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Lindsay N. Hyde and Stacy Straaberg

In September 2021, Adam Demuyakor (MBA 2017) was faced with decisions about how to launch his venture capital (VC) investment firm. His previous investment activities were a series of angel investments and special purpose vehicles alongside two part-time general... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Stake; Investment Funds; Venture Capital; Business and Shareholder Relations; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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• 01 Sep 2023
• News

Made in Italy

business school in the 1970s, Segel spent part of his studies in Florence. “It had an enormous impact on my life,” he says now. Segel fell in love with architecture and design there, a passion which led him into the real View Details

Keywords: April White

• Web

Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise Zoe Cullen , Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Product Management Sara McKinley Torti Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also listed under General Management) Mitchell Weiss Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details

• 01 Dec 2018
• News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be active partners in sourcing and financing View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

• 16 Feb 2010
• Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

that span industries and geographies, leading me to believe that what I was observing were fundamental shifts that transcended many sectors. The global real estate company Jones Lang LaSalle [JLL] is one of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

• 01 Jun 2023
• News

Curb Appeal

the real estate industry, and DSNY’s own union before finally hammering out an agreement to push the set-out time back to 8 p.m. beginning April 1 of this year. When she announced the change at a press... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

• 21 Aug 2013
• Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

weeks, and only then does the merchandise begin to move. So for six weeks, not much happens. You're wasting your real estate and capital. Johnson comes in and says we're not going to play this game. Why not... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail