Construction, Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

biggest barrier, quite honestly, was operations. Which is actually one of McDonnell strengths, but running two day parts at the same time through our kitchens was a good challenge-- just the real estate... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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

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

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

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

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

01 Mar 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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

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

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

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John D. Macomber | Working Knowledge

John D. Macomber Senior Lecturer of Business Administration John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, View Details

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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

01 Mar 2010
News

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

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 commercial sector, the bank balance sheet is... 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

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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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

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

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

development and climate,” she tells us. (01:36)Investments in education and training programs are needed to equip individuals with the skills required for these overlooked roles. Dylan Small: Exploring green cement to decarbonize real... View Details

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