Commercial Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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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05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

For commercial debt backed by real estate collateral, non-performing loans rise more than 81 percent once the crisis hits. “Once you have defaults in the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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

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

16 Oct 2013
News

Progress Through Preservation

Will Rogers by Maureen Harmon Every year, Will Rogers (MBA 1985) packages honey from his backyard beehive operation and doles it out to major supporters of the Trust for Public Land, where he serves as president and CEO. The hives, which he's kept for more than 40... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; Real Estate

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Books

identify customer-owners, delight them by exceeding their expectations, foster an ownership culture throughout the company, and measure and increase “ownership quotient” among customers and employees. Creating and Growing Real View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

30 Mar 2018
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built... View Details

19 Feb 2008
News

The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with... View Details

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

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional Investors Think About View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

a community-based real estate project in Detroit. The best way I describe the D to people is layered and complex! There’s so much going on – the good, the bad, and the ugly – as the city works to redefine... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

26 Oct 2011
News

On Top, Down Under

Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. REIS
Search millions of real View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Slum for Sale

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

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

01 Mar 2017
News

Bringing Out the Best

and remembering what I said.’ ” Curry was more interested in finance then, but after 25 years in commercial real estate, she now sees that the professor was right. “It all comes down to organizational... View Details

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Larry Braithwaite

venture, Larry is collaborating with a partner to "develop residential real estate in low-income areas in Philadelphia. We want to prove a point – that underserved inner-city communities can provide... View Details

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