Construction, Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

and four are rich, pretty, and a real estate agent. [LAUGHTER] Which is true and hilarious. So we'd rather be happy than anything else. The sad part is that if you look at Professor David Meyers' work at the... View Details

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Case 210-089 A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details

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McKinley Torti Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Management, General Management Mitchell Weiss Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top R Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Real Estate... View Details

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

megascale project: to construct the world's largest amusement park, called Dubailand. Examines various aspects of Dubai's background, world real estate and tourism trends, and environmental and political... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2010
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conditions suffered and some local Emirati felt like they lost aspects of their cultural identity. Growth was rapid, infrastructure was weak, and the real estate bubble grew as the financial crisis loomed.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

continue with the development strategy of economic diversification set forth by his father. Yet, it is not clear if the ambitious investments in infrastructure, education, tourism, and real estate Emir Hamad... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own successful View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

policy is a tradable asset, for many individuals possibly the most valuable one in their portfolio after real estate and perhaps a retirement account. The fact that the policy is tradable, however, is hardly... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

effervescent Lyon attributes his entrepreneurial tendencies to his father, the "Dave" of Uncle Dave's. "He has always created new ventures - everything from selling real estate to being the first licensee to... View Details

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Jan Pianca

Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details

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First Look: February 5, 2008

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

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Wendi Zhang

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Jill Huggett

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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Vincent Dessain

Class Acts

First Look: October 15, 2008

Jan Pianca