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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
of return to the economy that the government has ever realized" What if the proposed investment in infrastructure were split into two major programs, one for physical repair and construction and one for human development? Let’s... View Details
- January 2017
- Teaching Note
SOHO China: Transformation in Progress
By: Charles F. Wu and Alexander W. Schultz
In 2016 against the backdrop of a challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of their new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
a personal point of view, it was remarkable to see tens of millions of people from all walks of life, rich and poor, gather together in what was literally a pop-up city and go about their daily and religious lives, inhabiting tents of one kind or another, traveling on... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
are insisting that new construction in their cities be "green" and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. While the LEED system of classifying green construction is far... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard to Restart Allston Development
University’s executive vice president, outlined a two-part plan for proceeding. Phase one includes construction of a 500,000- to 700,000-square-foot health and life science center. Funding for the project will be part of the University’s... View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- News
The Next Harvard Square? Really?
though — even visually-challenged individuals like me can see that by taking a stroll by the construction zone for the Harvard Allston Science Complex on Western Avenue, due for completion in just a few years and future home of the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
To construct a house, builders need a firm foundation. For a financial empire, Wall Street wizards need only greed, gullibility, and optimism. The subprime empire began with a tangible structure: a house. For the buyer, that house was a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
approach. And there is the public-transit link: the government can construct high-speed rails to move people from cheaper housing to big cities, a project underway in Modiin. (The United States, while voicing support for high-speed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24. The Chao Center, a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don't see an oversupply situation," he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus assessment is that new construction has not run ahead of market demand. With national vacancy... View Details
- July 2004 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
Hines Goes to Rio
By: Arthur I Segel and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho
The Torre Almirante office tower, Hines' newest project in Rio de Janeiro, was a 36-story, Class AA office tower with an adjoining 420-stall parking structure and a preserved 14-story historic facade. It was completely different from anything that had previously been... View Details
Keywords: Property; Design; Construction; Buildings and Facilities; Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; New York (city, NY)
Segel, Arthur I., and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho. "Hines Goes to Rio." Harvard Business School Case 805-001, July 2004. (Revised July 2020.)
- January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz, and John Dean Shepherd. "Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-017, January 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
Kamran (“Tom”) Elghanayan (MBA ’68), who arrived in the United States from Iran when he was five years old, helped found the Rockrose Development Corporation, a New York City firm with a reputation for building residential towers in neighborhoods that other developers... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Regency Plaza
By: William J. Poorvu and Richard E Crum
Designed to examine the process of project management during the development cycle of a luxury condominium building, exploring the issue of how the design, development strategy, project organization, and project personnel are interrelated. More specifically, looks at... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Construction; Housing; Management Practices and Processes; Projects; Luxury; Real Estate Industry
Poorvu, William J., and Richard E Crum. "Regency Plaza." Harvard Business School Case 391-021, November 1990. (Revised January 2008.)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
early 2020. But it will happen. “I tell my kids, one day you guys are going to ride a metro,” Mawilmada says. “Just know that I was a part of it in some small way.” Development in Colombo’s historic Fort district, the city’s commercial and financial center, includes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Teele Hall Dedication
Last October, the School's five-story office building at 230 Western Avenue was formally renamed Teele Hall, in honor of HBS Dean Stanley F. Teele, who led the School from 1955 to 1962. Present for the ceremony was a contingent of Teele family members, including... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
How was the idea for Breakwater Chicago born? "I came up with the idea for Breakwater Chicago after my business school internship at The Venetian in Las Vegas. I observed that Chicago had not yet picked up on the trend of daytime entertainment—something which had... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Spangler Center in Top Form
A cloudless blue sky and a chilly wind provided a brisk backdrop for a December celebration of progress made in the construction of the new Spangler Center. The "topping out" ceremony, a Viking tradition that pays tribute to the trees... View Details