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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
of a dozen department bureaus and offices, including all matters related to worldwide embassy operations, security, consular affairs, personnel, and finance. In addition, Cohen secured congressional funding for and directed an overseas embassy-building program... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Business School Case 207-090 As part of its expansion and diversification strategy, the Chiaphua Group explored real estate investments in emerging markets. The Group was one of the largest privately held... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
discredited real estate investment strategies and raising permanent capital. But if its IPO failed again, the company might lose any remaining credibility and be forced to fold. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
U.S. performance as a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). As an alternative, to finance this expansion, Shurgard received a proposed deal from a consortium of banks and other investors where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Periodical:Harvard Business Review (October 2006) Abstract "Two-sided markets" are platform-mediated markets that exhibit network effects between two distinct groups of users, for example, card holders and merchants in credit card markets; home buyers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Millennial Net worth another round of backing? Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804173 The Pilgrim Assurance Building 206-078 A local real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2012
- News
Shaping a Business and a Community
- 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
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field brand and part of the entrepreneur's means of distinguishing his offering at a moment when there were more than a dozen department stores in Chicago. So how did Field make his strategic mark? By establishing a powerful, relevant brand which acted-and still... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
statement before we entered the space. But now, that piece of real estate over your ears calls for self-expression. Along with your eyewear, your hat, your hoodie, and your jeans, headphones are a prominent... View Details
- 21 Jan 2010
- News
Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
grown men! I was out of my element and much too scared to talk in class." "I had a sense from the first day that ours was going to be a class in transition," says Mike Feeley, chairman of the Sino-American Development Corporation, who also serves as 1971's class... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
expenditures? Expectations for business leadership will be greater than ever. For example, real estate developers will be expected to not just comply with building codes but actively contribute to crafting... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
prices. Philanthropy, seeded by the steel fortunes, played a major role in funding education, culture, and historical preservation projects. City and state government, combined with self-organized private-sector players, played their part by funding technology as well... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option. (Photo: iStockphoto) For example, a real estate agent might forego the opportunity to... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
Interest Group (SIG) on real estate investing in the fast-growing Dallas/Fort Worth market, several group tours behind the scenes of Texas companies such as Central Market, a major local grocery chain, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
always worse than you think they are and take longer to fix and cost more. But the goal of what I do is like building community. I've been a real estate developer since the early 1980s and it's always about... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
developing Chinese real estate market and introduces issues concerning the search and property acquisition that are specific to Beijing. Also deals with the direct and indirect cost involved in home... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace