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- January 2000 (Revised October 2014)
- Exercise
Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank
By: Michael Wheeler
Six-party negotiation of land use and development. View Details
Wheeler, Michael. "Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank." Harvard Business School Exercise 800-090, January 2000. (Revised October 2014.)
- December 1999 (Revised June 2002)
- Exercise
Salt Harbor: Confidential Information for Easterly
Two-party negotiation involving a bed and breakfast and an incoming coffee chain. View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Salt Harbor: Confidential Information for Easterly." Harvard Business School Exercise 800-077, December 1999. (Revised June 2002.)
- August 1977
- Teaching Note
Sunshine Builders, Inc., Teaching Note
By: Jeffrey G. Miller and Steven C. Wheelwright
Teaching Note for (9-606-024). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
- January 1996
- Teaching Note
Domik Project, The TN
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-395-104). View Details
- January 1995 (Revised January 1995)
- Case
USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region (Abridged)
By: James L. Heskett
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
Heskett, James L. "USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 395-026, January 1995. (Revised January 1995.)
- February 1992 (Revised March 1992)
- Case
Keen Development
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
Poorvu, William J. "Keen Development." Harvard Business School Case 392-090, February 1992. (Revised March 1992.)
- 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
- June 1991 (Revised January 1996)
- Teaching Note
SouthPark IV, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-390-181). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
- 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 2011
- News
Family of Clubs & Associations Expands
The network of HBS clubs and associations continues to grow, with recent additions bringing the total to 91 worldwide. Three new groups recently received recognition: the HBS Angels Alumni Association, the HBS Christian Fellowship Alumni Association, and the HBS 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
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of a home, but of its meaning.... View Details
Samuel J. Lefrak
Lefrak was the first private company participating in city-financed housing projects in the United States. His company completed several housing projects, such as King’s Bay in Brooklyn, Parc Vendome in Queens, and Lefrak City, a 40-acre, $150 million housing... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Melvin H. Baker
With $100,000 in capital, Baker founded the National Gypsum Company with two colleagues in 1925. When he assumed the CEO position a few years later, he led his company from a newcomer in a highly competitive field, making one product in one plant, to a diversified... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Lewis H. Brown
Under Brown’s leadership, Johns-Manville became the world’s largest producer of asbestos building materials, insulation, and allied products. Brown instituted both collective bargaining and the eight-hour day/forty hour week for management. Brown also began the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
School Case 217-029 Real Estate in China: A Technical Note for SOHO China A technical note on the state of Chinese commercial real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Alumni Changing the World
Tawan Davis
Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network of investors, contractors, and... View Details