Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

specific case of Wells Fargo, it might warrant finding those who were fired for objecting to what was going on and hiring them back. The concern here is about psychological, not financial, ownership. The objects in question are organizations and relationships, not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2007
News

The Winning Season

related real estate from Anheuser-Busch for $150 million, they didn’t only buy a baseball team. Just as the Boston Red Sox enjoy (or endure) the attentions of fans across a wide swath of New England, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

turnarounds to mature businesses, from “home-run” deals to troubled investments. (The course does not cover venture capital or real estate segments of PE.) Through these case studies, the goal of the class... View Details

21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

They include a tour of Toyota North America headquarters, which recently moved to Dallas; special seminars on real estate, since, he says, Dallas is described as the Wall Street of the real View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

as well. President Trump is a famous builder and real estate developer and an astute observer of trends in the built environment. His business experience informs how he can be expected to govern. Congress is... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

01 Mar 2012
News

She’s Got Your Back

Hicks Photo courtesy Angie's List What Angie's List Knows About Customer Reviews Main article: Where Innovation Rules Talk about a pain point. Shoddy roofing leads to leaking, causing your ceiling to fall in and damage the kitchen. Now what? How do you (quickly!) find... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; online reviews; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

06 Jul 2010
News

Expert to Teach Housing Finance

Keywords: Professor Nicolas Retsinas; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

AmREIT, a NYSE-listed company he sold in February 2015 to EDENS (Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, and NYSTRS). Recently, Taylor founded Rowland Taylor, LLC, a real estate investment company in Houston, Texas. AmREIT... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

staffed studio that allows participants to interact in real time with one another and with a faculty member, much as they would in a physical classroom. Up to 60 participants per session download software that provides a perspective view... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Mar 2010
News

A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or you’re a law firm or a View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

Neeley says. “It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?’” As life begins to normalize, Neeley urges managers to retain that emphasis on employee well-being. “When people are working from home, they are giving up... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

1,500 employees, 93 percent of whom are women, and they operate hundreds of stores and counters in Macy’s. The daughter of an entrepreneur and a teacher, Marla Beck grew up in Oakland, California. She was a voracious reader who tagged along with her father on View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate,... View Details

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

indivisibility of residential real estate that prevents homeowners from deleveraging when property values decline and homeowner equity deteriorates, conspire to create a "ratchet" effect in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2008
News

The Next Harvard Square? Really?

I’ll admit I don’t have the world’s strongest visual imagination. When folks in the Harvard University Planning Office talk about the new Harvard Square that will be springing up around the Bulletin’s Allston offices over the coming decades, I kind of don’t believe it.... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

increasingly transform into places for experiences, not just for taking inventory home. What probably will not survive are the retailers that are more like a warehouse, or just physical repositories of goods. Real View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms are prime real View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

November 2010 (Revised October 2012)
Background Note

Farmland Investing: A Technical Note

By: Ray Goldberg, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero and Andrew Terris

This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing, the investment thesis behind investing in agriculture, how and why investors would choose farmland, and the general risks and return characteristics of this asset class. In recent years, a growing number of... View Details