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Presents the results of a service process analysis of USAA's claims processing activity in its Great Lakes Region. Explores not only issues of redesigning the process but also the organizational implications of various alternatives. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Mortgages; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry; North America

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Purchase

February 1992 (Revised March 1992)
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Keen Development

By: William J. Poorvu

Keywords: Real Estate Industry

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Find at Harvard

June 1991 (Revised November 2002)
Teaching Note

American Dream,The (TN)

By: William J. Poorvu and Elizabeth McLoughlin

Teaching Note for (9-390-089). View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Industry

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Purchase

June 1991 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

SouthPark IV, Teaching Note

By: William J. Poorvu

Teaching Note for (9-390-181). View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Industry

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Purchase

June 1991
Teaching Note

Prospect Hill (TN)

By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman

Teaching Note for (9-390-011). View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts

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Purchase

August 1989 (Revised October 2003)
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Fan Pier

By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman

The owner of the Fan Pier site in South Boston has been found legally responsible for blocking the efforts of his development partner in attaining the approval necessary to build the $800 million megaproject they had planned together. It was believed that the owner... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Law; Projects; Design; Organizational Design; Marketing Strategy; Government and Politics; Property; Real Estate Industry; Boston

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Purchase

June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
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Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee

Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile

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Purchase

01 Jun 2006
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Utopian Vision

It’s one thing to dream of utopia; it’s another to actually invest in one. That’s what Boykin Curry (MBA ’94), a New York money manager, has accomplished by convincing an A-list of successful friends to buy into what he calls a “Creative Person’s Utopia” on the north... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate

07 Jun 2015
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Lightning Owner Wants to Build to Last, in Tampa and on Ice

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Dec 2005
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A Renter’s Market

Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion asset class with no... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

25 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Video: Tackling the Housing Crisis One Renovation at a Time

Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is defying the odds and creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network of... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Investing in a community's housing and cultural life

Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

first currency restrictions that Argentina had imposed on its citizens. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-064 Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale

A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

28 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song; Real Estate; Real Estate

27 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing

Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec. Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor shape, short supply, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Real Estate; Real Estate