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- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
and equality is meaningful and challenging,” she adds. “I know my goal to develop organizations and society on this issue is a lofty one; and I may not be able to change the world, but I can sure keep the ball rolling.” Coleman began her career working in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
A NEW VIEW: Slums occupy valuable real estate in India. Photo courtesy HBS India Research Center Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Larry Braithwaite
venture, Larry is collaborating with a partner to "develop residential real estate in low-income areas in Philadelphia. We want to prove a point – that underserved inner-city communities can provide... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Focus on Fellowships
classmate Tony Sanchez. Gilbane, who works in his family's real estate business in Houston, Texas, named the fellowship he established in honor of his parents because of their commitment to education. "I... View Details
Keywords: MBA Class of 2005
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
School Case 217-029 Real Estate in China: A Technical Note for SOHO China A technical note on the state of Chinese commercial real estate and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
The Secret Sauce
Email communication was key to achieving a class best of 53 percent participation. When asked to lead his class’s 30th Reunion Gift participation efforts, Atlanta-based real estate developer Scott Hawkins... View Details
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Company), Product Development and Innovation Consulting (IDEO), Economic Development (Michael Porter's C-MECS), VP of Sales and Business Development (Enspire Learning, start-up), Real estate investor and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories of COVID-19 lockdowns are still fresh in people’s minds, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
It’s one thing to dream of utopia; it’s another to actually invest in one. That’s what Boykin Curry (MBA ’94), a New York money manager, has accomplished by convincing an A-list of successful friends to buy into what he calls a “Creative Person’s Utopia” on the north... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of a home, but of its meaning.... View Details
Samuel J. Lefrak
Lefrak was the first private company participating in city-financed housing projects in the United States. His company completed several housing projects, such as King’s Bay in Brooklyn, Parc Vendome in Queens, and Lefrak City, a 40-acre, $150 million housing... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Melvin H. Baker
With $100,000 in capital, Baker founded the National Gypsum Company with two colleagues in 1925. When he assumed the CEO position a few years later, he led his company from a newcomer in a highly competitive field, making one product in one plant, to a diversified... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Lewis H. Brown
Under Brown’s leadership, Johns-Manville became the world’s largest producer of asbestos building materials, insulation, and allied products. Brown instituted both collective bargaining and the eight-hour day/forty hour week for management. Brown also began the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
need to be able to bring out the best in them.” As an example, Curry cites working with millennials in her role as president of National Office Services for Colliers International, the world’s third-largest publicly traded real View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
the stock market. The real money is in the property market; a drop in values of real estate would have more far-reaching consequences. In terms of global spillovers, the... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
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Margaret Regan
thinking "I can do that!" My goal was to lead a meaning-filled life. My HBS MBA led to a real estate opportunity in Houston which led to another opportunity which led to me starting my own... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate... View Details