Commercial Real Estate - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

seasoned workers. Viana continues to talk while casually squeezing his SUV into an impossibly tiny spot along one of the narrow streets in Bayeux’s historic center. His last real vacation with his wife and three children was three years... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Jun 2007
First Look

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

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread appears to proxy for business conditions, while the short rate appears to proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

more than $1 million in grants to renovate the aging West Wind dormitory, provide technical assistance to local farmers, and establish a commercial kitchen that local growers can use to make value-added agricultural products; turned the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

only producing 240 million pounds a year. You would serve one customer.” That 50-ton-a-day mark is a real goal, says Lo, and the Dubai farm will be a big proof of concept. And while any company’s world-saving ambitions can resemble... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

how fast you can learn, and therefore on how fast you can improve—raising the bar before real data are available is risky, and makes learning from experience more difficult. Should the "feedback time" be long (as it is for Mars... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

commercializing what is already known, said Immelt. And there’s an important role for government to play, he added. “I’ve been a Republican all my life. I believe in free markets. But the notion that the government isn’t a catalyst for... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

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

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

adopted home state of Montana, Siebel had spent around $30 million of his own money to “un-sell” the drug, hiring highly regarded Hollywood directors to create graphic, disturbing commercials depicting its harrowing physical and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Rowe explains. "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." In the mid-1980s, New England Electric initiated pilot programs for its commercial and small industrial customers to help them conserve energy and thus... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

12 Feb 2019
First Look

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

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new, that the View Details

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro‐sciences. But if Dow's long history of innovation is impressive, the greatest change in the past few years has been the company's use of innovation to reinforce its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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