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  • 06 May 2019
  • News

Startup Talk in Chicago

25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

since HBS, I have been in Asia, residing in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta. Lewis Rutherfurd (MBA 1971) and I were the only two individuals from our class who went to Asia to make a career. I started developing real View Details
Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

to New York and it has been extremely rewarding to experience the product first-hand. Another thing I enjoy at Blueground is that I get to collaborate with colleagues from a number of different industries and former roles, from ex-consultants to seasoned View Details
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Agribusiness; Investment; Investment Return; Risk Management; Property; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Asia; United States; South America
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  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Genzyme Center (C)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Genzyme Center (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

hair salons to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals, with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa

internet speeds that are higher than some developed countries, developed one of the hottest real estate markets in the world, and cultivated one of Africa’s foremost innovation hubs. And yet, there is so... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism
  • 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
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

Griffin H. JamesHarvard Business School Case 210-070 A real estate developer assesses its ability to capture the benefits of investing in LEED Platinum, Vedic Design, and EnergyStar components in new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most recent is NowAccount, a fintech... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
  • Supplement

Mara Group (B)

By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Africa
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets, private banking, asset management,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

competitors could only offer three. However, LEGO offers a 30-35 percent margin to retailers, compared to competing brands offering 40-50 percent margins. What if local retailers wanted the higher margins and could care less about turnover? Outsourcing risks. With... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the stock market. The real money is in the property market; a drop in values of real estate would have more far-reaching consequences. In terms of global spillovers, the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their communities by rising View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint