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Herman Brown

Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

your operations is critical because, even if you are not prioritizing it, your competition is. In addition, your competition may also be operating with 10-20 percent less real estate needs post-pandemic due... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Kanter says. Gibson, who was not well-known in Miami when she began her startup quest, came across financial and real estate professionals who had never known someone like her. They had trouble seeing a... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research over many decades in public health and in commercial View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

and Syria; to the south is the booming Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah. In front of me is a vast expanse of sand and hope, fueled by a huge investment towards a brand new city the size of Washington, DC. I can see intermittent puffs from earthmoving equipment,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Real Estate; Real Estate

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

followed his path: the eldest, Tanya Dubash (AMP 168, 2005), leads marketing for the Group, and son Pirojsha heads Godrej Properties, the business empire's real estate arm. For Nisa, 36, the middle child,... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

01 Sep 2010
News

Condo Mania

Biscayne Bay. Someday, Sternlicht believes, wealthy buyers will want to live there; right now, he concedes, “this looks like an abandoned property. We have to make it look like it’s alive” (New York Times, May 30, 2010). Sternlicht became a big player in View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

Career Coach

Scott Renner

the challenges facing dual-career couples, how to think about the work/lifestyle trade-off, and how to consider the use of a ÒmosaicÓ career as a way to craft a satisfying work/life balance. Work Experience: A.T. Kearney, Deloitte Consulting, General Electric, View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

13 May 2014
News

Willing Hands

just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Real Estate; Real Estate

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Real Estate; Real Estate

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate Game, Poorvu... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Real Estate; Real Estate

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

States. At a recent conference at the Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute of the IDC in Herzliya, we joined residential developers, non-profits, national and local government officials, and academics to... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Real Estate; Real Estate

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

toward the reduction of principal. Third, lenders can transfer the mortgage-holder's status from "owner" to "renter." Often the owner has so little equity in the house anyway that the lender is in effect the owner. But making this shift from... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

improvement and offer new methods to city planners and real estate developers looking to identify areas in need of improvement. The collaborators reveal their findings in a May 2017 paper in the Proceedings... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2010
News

Sunshine State

filling vending machines after his textile-equipment business collapsed. The younger Greene ended up making a fortune in Southern California real estate; later, his success at subprime hedging earned him the title “The Meltdown Mogul”... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

consulting skills and social entrepreneurship in their MBA program, and she also moderates online executive education programs for HBS Publishing.Carole is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She serves on several boards and in... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

real estate at Harvard Business School, and director emeritus of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. In addition, the American economy depends on consumers having access to credit. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

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