House Of Cards - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2010
News

Commanding Officers

to students about public service, is the assistant secretary for the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) at the U.S. Department of Labor. His agency, which he is notably reinventing and recharging, helps former military... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

28 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

perks. By 2016, however, the U.S. credit card market had become increasingly competitive, with many credit card companies increasing their sign-on point bonuses for new customers. Chris Cracchiolo, Amex’s... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

will be successful. Attendees study a variety of real-world case studies, including peeks into the business dealings of basketball star LeBron James, rapper Jay Z, and a look at the drama series View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307076 Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War Harvard Business School Case 708-032 At the start View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

journey where we thought a method like this would work.” Shu is currently completing a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing through the international Schwarzman Scholars program. Housing has always... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

foundation floor for a house that you know is going to provide shelter for a family for many years, especially when you're hammering in boards alongside the people who will be living there.” The fleeting nature View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 1995 (Revised November 1996)
Case

MasterCard and World Championship Soccer

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The MasterCard vice president for global promotions and other MasterCard executives are appraising the results of MasterCard's worldwide sponsorship of the 1994 World Cup soccer championship. They must decide whether to commit to sponsor the 1998 championship to be... View Details

Keywords: Credit Cards; Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Advertising Campaigns; Globalization; Sports; Financial Services Industry; Sports Industry; France; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2012
News

Going Up

structure will house living quarters and classrooms for HBS Executive Education programs. Pictured are (left to right) Tata Sons VP Venkat Venkataramanan, HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien, Tata, and Tata... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

was folly. Should lenders and borrowers have known that the house of cards would fall? Yes and no. If you believe that eventually what goes up must come down, then we should... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

2020
Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

Citation

Read Now

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 View Details

Keywords: Stanley F. Teele; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
Case

Hearthside Homes

By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman

Investigates the "controllability problem" inherent in bonus systems. Ideally, an incentive system accurately measures performance in areas that the individual can control. But most measures are either too broad, including factors outside the influence of the employee,... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Housing; Performance Evaluation; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Real Estate Industry

Citation

Educators

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

multiplies, the differences between them start to become increasingly trivial.” The truth of the matter is, my father never had to choose a credit card affiliation out of a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

assess public education reform needs, and assemble different aspects of the city’s recovery plan into a report to be submitted to President George W. Bush (MBA ’75). The trip inspired an ongoing effort that has sent some students back to... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

17 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Tech for the People

high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a proactive registry of Airbnb... View Details

December 1980 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Savannah West

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Allison Porter, a loan officer for Chemical Bank, must decide whether to make a construction loan on a 216-unit apartment building to be built in Savannah, Georgia. In teaching this case, one begins by looking at the economics, marketing data, etc., of the proposed... View Details