Commercial Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

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

01 Jun 2024
News

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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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Educators

Purchase

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

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Co-Winner Reduce the burden of heart disease in China. Charitable Donations Group Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Raise funds for nonprofits by helping them accept and liquidate real estate transactions.... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship," "How Small Companies Should Deal with Advisers," and "Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay" have appeared in Harvard Business Review. Other scholarly papers of his have appeared in Sloan Management Review, Real View Details

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

The 1950s onwards saw the beginning of the reconstruction of a new global economy. Between 1950 and 1973 the annual real GDP growth of developed market economies averaged around 5 percent. This growth was smooth, with none of the major... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

Company, a commercial real estate firm where he worked on transformative urban real estate projects. One of those... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management) Mitchell Weiss Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Real Estate Private Equity (also listed under Finance) Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Scaling Technology Ventures Jeffrey Rayport Spring 2026... View Details

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; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (state, US)

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Educators

Purchase

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

across the world. Carbon Neutral Common Space in EcoWorld Contrast with residential real estate decarbonization:While the EcoWorld visit inspired a lot of hope on decarbonizing View Details

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

As entrepreneurial rocket companies come closer to shooting the first space tourist into the void, perhaps even this year, another reality is dawning: The business of space is no different than new industries everywhere else. It’s tough to launch. Up until now,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

commercially available version of GPT-3 to elicit thousands of simulated customer responses and found that AI can produce demand patterns that resemble those of human studies. “Utilizing this tool, which is in some ways a consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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

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 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

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