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  • April 2016 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz
Keywords: Detroit; Rock Ventures; Dan Gilbert; Real Estate; Buildings and Facilities; Demographics; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Housing; Risk and Uncertainty; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • September 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat for Humanity, a not-for-profit, volunteer-based home builder, is coping with years of rapid growth and success. They now face a series of options to continue their successful course and must make corresponding organizational adjustments. Teaching objectives... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth Management; Housing; Service Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

One Western Avenue

Over the summer, the University’s newest residential building, One Western Avenue, opened at the corner of Western Avenue and Soldiers Field Road, adjacent to HBS. The building contains 235 apartments and will house about 350 occupants,... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Residential Life | MBA

having a sense of community. That's why students can choose from a range of on- and off-campus housing options to satisfy their needs. On-Campus Housing More than 65 percent of HBS students live on campus in... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

that the mayor’s beach house was there on exactly the same basis.” At that point it was time to return to MIT, but Mawilmada believes the government eventually granted an upgrade to the settlement. That experience was a turning point.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 14 Dec 2017
  • News

Making Movies Is a Class Act

Glenn Close in Crooked House (photo by Nick Wall) Crooked House, an Agatha Christie mystery published in 1949, was one of her favorites, yet it had never been adapted for film or television. Now, however, HBS sectionmates Joe Abrams and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University) Increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United... View Details
  • 4 PM – 7 PM CDT, 12 Mar 2017
  • HBS Alumni Events

HBS@SXSW 2017

SXSW? So are we! HBS is coming to Austin. Join other HBS alumni attending the SXSW Interactive Conference at Bobs Steak and Chop House for an informal networking reception. Three Texas regional finalists for the Alumni New Venture... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

    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... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • 30 Mar 2015
    • News

    Nonprofit strives to help adults with autism

    Kevin Boyle (MBA 1984) cofounded Autism Housing Pathways , which creates models of housing for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. (Published March 2015) View Details
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

    It is ten o'clock on a mild March morning in Charleston, South Carolina. A gentle mist is falling, weighing down the yellow Lady Banksia roses in the garden outside Roper House, an impeccably restored Greek Revival mansion that overlooks Fort Sumter and the city's... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 29 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

    The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Real Estate
    • 19 Dec 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

    Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is... View Details
    Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    Last Look

    identified these cheaply made buildings — known informally as Tortilla Flats after the John Steinbeck novel — as temporary postwar housing for married students, located roughly where Kresge Hall now is. Haseman recalls that his family’s... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    Yurt Man

    ZWERN, WITH “GLIMMER”: At Burning Man, a cool yurt has potential for disaster relief and housing for much of the world. Arthur Zwern (MBA ’85) and his solar-powered Hexayurt generated buzz at this year’s Burning Man festival, the annual... View Details
    Keywords: Construction; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
    • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
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    Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
    In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Investment; Housing; Valuation; United States
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      Walter R. Young, Jr.

      When Young joined Champion Enterprises, the diversified housing and recreational vehicle company had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In his first six months in office, he drastically reorganized the leadership structure.... View Details
      Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
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      Map & Directions | About

      House (2) Chao Center (4) Chase Hall Class of 1959 Chapel (2) Cotting House Dillon House (2) Gallatin Hall (2) Hamilton Hall (2) Hawes Hall Klarman Hall Loading Dock (2) Ludcke... View Details