Construction, Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

then went on to sell it to SalesForce. Kyle is now a VC at DCM Ventures. Andrew and Bin from Boba Guys - I’m particularly interested in scaling out Food & Beverage businesses because I just took classes in Real View Details

15 Aug 2012
News

Shaping a Business and a Community

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

their coming to the right decisions. I take great pride in the fact I recruited him to the Board.” — HBS professor emeritus Warren McFarlan “When I think of Howard, I think creativity, intelligence, energy, wide-ranging curiosity, friendship. Working with him to start... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308002 North Goes East Harvard Business School Case 208-136 In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. Marla Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) CEO and Cofounder, Bluemercury Inc. First job: Accounting work in her dad’s real View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Sail Away

ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price from $3.7 million to $26... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

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

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or you’re a law firm or a View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

Neeley says. “It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?’” As life begins to normalize, Neeley urges managers to retain that emphasis on employee well-being. “When people are working from home, they are giving up... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Apr 2008
News

The Next Harvard Square? Really?

I’ll admit I don’t have the world’s strongest visual imagination. When folks in the Harvard University Planning Office talk about the new Harvard Square that will be springing up around the Bulletin’s Allston offices over the coming decades, I kind of don’t believe it.... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate; Real Estate

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

Web

“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

lot of things I learned at HBS. I’d say about five percent of my work drew upon my TOM [Technology & Operations Management] coursework, and the other 95% was LEAD [Leadership and Organizational Behavior].” Josh was given significant responsibility for investigating the... View Details

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate,... View Details

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

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

indivisibility of residential real estate that prevents homeowners from deleveraging when property values decline and homeowner equity deteriorates, conspire to create a "ratchet" effect in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
News

Chasing the Silver Tsunami

do with engaging, and that’s what excites and delights our members,” she says. After earning her MBA, she worked as an executive in the senior-housing industry, which included oversight of a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a health care View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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

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