Publications

June 2003 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Highlands' Garden Village

By: Arthur I Segel, Eve Bould and Hank Midgley

It was March 2003 and Chuck Perry was awaiting the arrival of his New York-based business partner, Jonathan Rose. He and Rose had begun Highlands' Garden Village, their latest mixed-use, mixed-income development project. In 1996, they had optioned the unused Elitch... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Urban Development; Housing; Society; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Colorado

April 1997
Teaching Note

Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Bret J. Baird

Teaching Note for (9-697-020). View Details

Keywords: Mining Industry; Mining Industry

December 1987 (Revised May 1991)
Case

One Leather Street

By: William J. Poorvu and Jeffrey A. Libert

Presents a problem involving rehabilitating a small office building in Boston. Describes an investment decision which is knowingly underfunded. As construction proceeds, the developer realizes that it is not up to building code and faces difficult business and ethical... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Ethics; Investment; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Property; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Boston

01 Dec 1998
News

Faculty Retirements

and has contributed chapters to several books. Two articles he coauthored on real-estate finance won the Shattuck Award for the best article on real estate in 1967 and 1972. Hayes's MBA teaching assignments... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s expanded offerings now include consulting, research, and the country’s first crowdfunding... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Walter R. Young, Jr.

When Young joined Champion Enterprises, the diversified housing and recreational vehicle company had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In his first six months in office, he drastically reorganized the leadership structure. A growing economy provided a... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Charles D. Wiman

As the great-grandson of the company founder, Wiman was principally responsible for expanding and modernizing Deere’s operations, putting it on a path to become the largest and most successful supplier of large-scale agricultural equipment in the United States. Under... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Goff Smith

Spending over 35 years with Amsted, Smith led the company through a period of phenomenal growth continuing a 40-year tradition of uninterrupted dividends. During his 6 years as CEO, he doubled revenues from $450 million to $915 million and more than doubled earnings... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Bruce E. Karatz

Karatz has led KB Home during a period of immense growth. When he took over the CEO position, the company was selling and delivering 4,000 prefabricated homes a year. By 2003, the company was producing and selling over 27,000 homes. Karatz grew the business through... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

01 Apr 1998
News

Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers

Governor Jim Hunt named Spangler chairman of the state's Board of Education, where he served for four years. Following graduation from HBS and two years of army service, Spangler, a Charlotte native, made his mark in his family's construction and View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

18 Jul 2018
News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

also to give her the flexibility to change industries in the future. “I chose HBS for its world-class program and powerful alumni network.” Lien likens the rigors of her first year to boot camp and was grateful for the support of the... View Details

16 Mar 2018
News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z.... View Details

Profile

Malory Mclemore

public schools in the Birmingham area. Later, he started a small real estate business “flipping” houses, and recently became a top real estate... View Details

December 1980 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Savannah West

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Allison Porter, a loan officer for Chemical Bank, must decide whether to make a construction loan on a 216-unit apartment building to be built in Savannah, Georgia. In teaching this case, one begins by looking at the economics, marketing data, etc., of the proposed... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Property; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Housing; Risk Management; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Georgia (state, US)

May 1968 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Graybar Syndications

By: William J. Poorvu

A potential investor evaluates a proposed offering—a major office building in downtown Manhattan. View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Investment; Construction; City; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Teaching Note

Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard

By: Maria Roche

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-441. View Details

Keywords: Optics; Engineering; Higher Education; Strategy; Science; Buildings and Facilities; Research and Development; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry

September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas

December 2019
Case

WeWork Files for an IPO

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States

September 2002 (Revised May 2008)
Case

The Arts Property and Hotel

By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian

Julio Martinez finds himself as one of the owners of the Arts Hotel Project in Barcelona, Spain. The 455-room hotel is managed by the Ritz Carlton and is in a 44-story tower along Barcelona's beachfront. Julio needs to figure out a strategy to maximize his investment,... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Property; Strategy; Accommodations Industry; Accommodations Industry; Barcelona