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  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

forgoing an inspection of the trees. And many trees in the retail forest, that is, many brick-and-mortar stores, are in ill health. Like trees, retail stores are long-lived, often with leases lasting ten or more years, and are unable to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • Profile

Joseph Abel

electricity from the sun,” Joe explains, “but there’s a huge up-front cost.” To overcome the obstacle, Sungevity packages panel-installation and financing together, offering customers a solar-energy purchase similar to a lease on a car.... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • News

Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, and the growth of entrepreneurship... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Residential Life | MBA

These apartments are open to all Harvard graduate students and are popular among those with families. Harvard University Housing offers 1-3 bedroom apartments, typically unfurnished, and pet-friendly apartments on a fixed-term lease basis... View Details
  • Web

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS | MBA

(spoiler that I went back to Los Angeles), I didn’t want to be locked into a year-long lease and need to find a subletter to save money while I was away from Boston. The dorms are only 9-month leases, which gave me the summer flexibility... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man

a 3,800-acre parcel of ranchland and hot springs near the annual site (held on leased federal land) that will make it possible to share the Burning Man experience year-round. Secret weapon: A Hello Kitty calculator. “People used to freak... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • Web

Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

plans for a summer 2020 restaurant opening, Sasago was one day away from signing a lease on a space in South Boston in March when “COVID-19 hit, and everything stopped,” he explains. Despite the obvious barriers to launching a business... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

Kraft's offer, as the Foxboro stadium was poorly designed and in terrible condition, and depended on the Patriots for most of its income. Kraft and his partner were astute enough, however, to spot obscure provisions in the lease that not... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

into an integrated real estate financial advisory firm," he said. The 1999 sale of Boston Financial's $8 billion Real Estate Institutional Advisory Practice to the Lend Lease Corporation was extremely successful from a financial... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

powerful economic incentive to lend to companies in Chapter 11. (Although American did not need such debtor-in-possession financing, United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Chapter 11 also allows a company to reject... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 19 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

She and her team identify new project sites; they enter leasing agreements with landowners, many of whom are facing drought conditions and have limited alternative “crop” potential; and Diana’s team completes early-stage development,... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512085-PDF-ENG Sarvajal: Water for All John D. Macomber and Mona SinhaHarvard Business School Case 211-028 Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

that is so assured that it no longer requires conspicuous display. They lease their cars, rent other people's holiday homes, and would happily outsource other aspects of their lifestyles. They reject the marketer's continual pressure to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Tenant Factor Furthermore, private-sector building developers might embrace LEED in order to woo government tenants. Indeed, in addition to taking up space in city hall and the like, government agencies often lease space in private... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

government officials intent on monopoly-busting - also intervene. That's correct. In the late 1950s, just as the Electronic Century was being formed, the U.S. Justice Department settled antitrust suits with IBM and RCA, paving the way for learning in these firms to be... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • December 2010 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Back to the Future: Redeveloping Unilever House

By: A. Eugene Kohn, Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris
Steve Williams, General Counsel of Unilever PIc, has two key decisions to make prior to commencing construction on the redevelopment of Unilever House - the company's London corporate headquarters. The purpose of the redevelopment is to reinvigorate the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Leasing; Sales; Restructuring; Leading Change; Financing and Loans; Decisions; Business Headquarters; Design; Projects; London
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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

contextual issues, it's actually a case about how leasing assets enables faster growth, which is an insight that applies worldwide,” he comments. Professor Lynn S. Paine, whose global research helped develop another elective, Managing... View Details
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