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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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

A Bid for the Future

When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

    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
    • February 2008
    • Teaching Note

    The Big Easy, Not So Easy (TN)

    By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
    Teaching Note for [208068]. View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Natural Disasters; Contracts; Buildings and Facilities; Housing; New Orleans
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    • March 2025
    • Case

    Boom, Bust, or Bullseye? Navigating the Short-Term Rental Market

    By: John Macomber, Juan Pablo Heusser Killing, Siddhant Pardeshi and Sally Su
    Short-term rentals listed via apps like AirBnB and VRBO are increasingly interesting investments for small-scale real estate investors. However, they have substantial operating costs, vacancy risk, and regulatory exposure compared to traditional long-term leases... View Details
    Keywords: Housing; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Bids and Bidding; Leasing; Renting or Rental; Real Estate Industry; Accommodations Industry; Arizona; California; Texas
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    • 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
    • 19 Oct 2018
    • Blog Post

    Moving to the U.S. With a Family

    move to Boston and build strong relationships with our new friends.  Setting up our house and making a home on campus  Moving with a family can be challenging in any circumstance if you do it on your own, but we were fortunate enough to... View Details
    • 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
    • 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
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    Map & Directions | About

    Ride Share? 111 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02163 (Note: do not use this address for mail.) Gender Inclusive Restrooms 114 Western Avenue (3) 25 Travis Street (4) Aldrich Hall Baker Library | Bloomberg Center (11) Batten Hall Cash House... 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
    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    Pinball Wizard

    Richard Simon (MBA '66) is making Manhattan his playground - in this case, an indoor replica of the Big Apple as it appeared in the 1930s, the New York Times reported (August 12, 1999, and September 23, 1999). Called Broadway City, Simon's fun View Details
    • 01 Jun 2019
    • News

    Case Study: Mind the Gap

    the shortage of skills isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link Central and Eastern Europe’s software houses with global enterprises in... View Details
    Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
    • 11 Feb 2015
    • News

    Dedicated to a public service mission

    Wrendon Hunt (MBA 2012) was raised to be an upstander. “My father always talked about serving causes greater than ourselves,” says Hunt, who is a 2014–2015 White House Fellow. He describes his yearlong appointment at the Department of... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2002
    • News

    Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)

    career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban... View Details