Commercial 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

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

opportunity is very, very short.— Ted Johnson, New England Patriots Topics covered in the course included entrepreneurship; tax and other legal responsibilities; assessing financial health; managing yourself; analyzing a business model; personal View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

15 Nov 2020
News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

important yet least understood forces that will shape the global business environment in the coming decades,” explains Rithmire. “It was a truly unique opportunity to learn about Chinese politics and policy on the ground in real time the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

only 910,000 homes on the market remained unsold nationwide, an all-time low. And Zillow, the online real estate sales platform, recently revised its 2022 forecast upward, predicting home prices will surge... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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

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

Web

Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

“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 is to understand when and how private... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

advertising campaign. "We have all the necessary information on CD-ROM to give students a real taste of what it feels like to make marketing decisions under pressure," Quelch explains. Students worked in teams of five or six, clicking... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 1997
News

Jennifer L. Scott

curriculum. Participating students developed their business plans in elective courses and field studies, honing their ideas with the help of some 25 HBS alumni who also evaluated the plans based on their commercial viability. Nearly 20... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718496-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-430 Redfin: Redefine Real Estate Founded in 2004, Redfin envisioned a light-touch model in which clients... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2016
News

Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship

make a sales call. I didn’t know how to negotiate a real estate lease. I didn’t know how to set up a payroll. I had no idea how to interview and hire the right people. These are all really important business... View Details

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

and cross-boundary work. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53289 forthcoming Organization Science Blurring the Boundaries: The Interplay of Gender and Local Communities in the Commercialization of Social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

01 Feb 2000
News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

opposed to in the real world?" In a panel on "Technology and Commerce," HBS professor David B. Yoffie elaborated on that theme, observing that the big challenge for CEOs today is "not necessarily to start something new, but how to bring... View Details

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

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

stipulation that savings are intended for asset-building purposes only—for real estate investment, post-secondary education, and building a small business, for example. IDA participants would be required to... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Sep 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man

Raiser (MBA 1990), known on the “playa” as CocoCabana, serves as treasurer of the organization, in addition to working at her family’s real estate business. “It feels like being the grown-up at a kid’s... View Details