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- June 1991
- Teaching Note
Prospect Hill (TN)
By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
Teaching Note for (9-390-011). View Details
- August 1989 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
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
Poorvu, William J., and Katherine Sweetman. "Fan Pier." Harvard Business School Case 390-012, August 1989. (Revised October 2003.)
- June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
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
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas Ibanez, and Jay Verjee. "Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 211-103, June 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
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
- 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
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after graduation during a meeting in Mexico City with a group of View Details
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Company), Product Development and Innovation Consulting (IDEO), Economic Development (Michael Porter's C-MECS), VP of Sales and Business Development (Enspire Learning, start-up), Real estate investor and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Sadun, Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration An Immersion in Private Equity and Real Estate A. Eugene Kohn (far right), chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and a senior lecturer... View Details
- 26 May 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Can the ‘Cummings Way’ Live On after the Founder Retires?
- 10 Feb 2020
- News
Robert L. Beal, Boston Developer and Civic Leader, Dies at 78
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Students Take Aim at Foreclosures
Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed the nonprofit’s strategy,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Margaret Regan
thinking "I can do that!" My goal was to lead a meaning-filled life. My HBS MBA led to a real estate opportunity in Houston which led to another opportunity which led to me starting my own... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate... View Details
- Web
Preqin | Baker Library
Preqin Data and information on private equity and venture capital companies, funds, and deals; debt, real estate and infrastructure. Read More Preqin, a part of BlackRock, is known as the home of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for Stevenson I was delighted to read the article on Howard Stevenson, "The House That Howard Built," in the June Bulletin. It brought back fond memories of my time in his real estate courses in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
China’s one-child policy might impact the real estate market, as well as his opinion on the American presidential race. (Dongik Lee) (Dongik Lee) In December, the Boston Redevelopment Authority officially... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It seems absolutely egalitarian at face value: Anyone who owns a... View Details