Commercial Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

century, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain all wrote about peddlers and canvassers. In the 1920s, stories about salesmen frequently appeared in popular magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt, about the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

core propagation mechanism of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007–2009. What are the long-lasting effects of the GFC on small business credit supply? The authors find that banks affected by the decline in real View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled... View Details

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

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Luca says online platforms provide an exciting opportunity for planners and policymakers to tap into useful data that could inform both commercial development and residential housing decisions. “There’s a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Events - Business History

Mary E. Hicks, Amherst College 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Dec 13 13 Dec 2019 Workshop "Capitalism and Commercial Society" Nov 25 25 Nov 2019 Business History Seminar Capitalism and German Imperialism before World War I: A Reassessment Steven Press,... View Details

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

geopolitics of the moment. The interesting thing about the energy sector is that it is always and everywhere inherently geopolitical, even when the decision-making by firms is utterly commercial in its rationale. These were fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

yield on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch index of high yield bonds, which remains fairly low. The bottom left and bottom right figures present the Case-Shiller 20 city index, a measure of real estate... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces often contain information not only about products, but also about the people selling the products. In an effort to facilitate trust, many platforms encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves. However,... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Race; Trust; Renting or Rental; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry

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26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

high point in his journalism career, Schwartz said, having written for such prominent publications as The New York Times, Newsweek, and New York magazine, Schwartz co-wrote what became a best-selling book, The Art of the Deal, with real... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

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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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S.... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Studios. Color Advertisement, ca. 1934. olvwork490157 Mabel J. Stegner, “The Art of Advertising Food,” Commercial Photographer 3 (June 1928): 405, in Patricia Johnston, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

(the quintessential two-sided platform) must serve both men and women. Q: Please give some examples of these markets. A: Examples are pervasive in today's economy and range from dating clubs (men and women), financial exchanges, real... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The Great Crash Crisis Leadership The... View Details

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

they need it most, such as after a job loss, research suggests. That presents a quandary for policymakers, Di Maggio says. Fintech companies bundle loans and sell them to other investors, much like the real View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

a work-from-home regime to WFA. Beyond improved productivity (under some conditions), WFA might enable companies to hire beyond their local labor markets and reduce real estate and utilities costs. As... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

digitally and in person, as Latin America works to catch up to digital options already available in more mature markets. Another firm, Alude, supports the real estate industry through a platform that allows... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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