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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities
Economics Digital ArticleThe attributes metros must have to thrive in the digital economy. -
3-D Negotiation: Playing the Whole Game
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhat stands between you and the yes you want? According to negotiation experts David Lax and James Sebenius, executives face obstacles in three common... -
If Work Is Digital, Why Do We Still Go to the Office?
Workspaces design Digital ArticleWe like seeing people, even if it’s inefficient. -
Pull the Plug on a Project with an Uncertain Future? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing... -
What Is Luxury Without Variety?
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleToday's consumers crave variety. A new approach to providing luxury gives the superaffluent access to a range of big-ticket items. -
Growth Crisis--and How to Escape It
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAt a time when companies are poised to seize the growth opportunities of a rebounding economy, many of them, whether they know it or not, face a growth... -
How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleBy better pricing risk, it can change our behavior. -
Before You Sign That Lease…
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleOffice space rental is often a big expense for a small company. But it can be unnecessarily expensive if you don’t understand the hidden costs and restrictions that are buried in many leases. The first thing to understand is that when you negotiate an office lease, your landlord probably has the advantage. If you’re like […] -
What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors
Boards Digital ArticleActivists are a source of potential value, albeit a risky one. -
Pull the Plug on a Project with an Uncertain Future? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing... -
Pull the Plug on a Project with an Uncertain Future? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing... -
Research: Restricting Airbnb Rentals Reduces Development
Economics Digital ArticleA new study found that in the three years after regulations were enacted, residential permit applications fell by an average of 10% in 15 U.S. cities. -
Power from the Ground Up: Japan’s Land Bubble
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleFor more than two years, Americans have heard distant rumors of unthinkable land price escalation going on in Japan. News reports indicate that in 1988, Japan’s theoretical land value surpassed by four times that of all land in the United States, a country nearly 25 times larger than Japan. Another real estate bulletin: the calculated […] -
Managing Real Estate to Build Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleReal estate escapes the thoughtful attention of most senior managers. It often falls within the realm of their responsibilities, but many do not appreciate... -
Motivating Through Metrics
Leading teams Magazine ArticleGetting the right people on board—and then all enthusiastically pulling in the right direction—has bedeviled organizations since the time of wooden ships, when the most popular form of motivation left lash marks. Today’s corporate helmsmen may be more enlightened, but they still face the same challenge. How can a company transform its frontline crew into […] -
Enterprise’s Leader on How Integrating an Acquisition Transformed His Business
Brand management Magazine ArticlePhotography: Stuart Isett The Idea: When the car rental company acquired Alamo and National, rather than execute a “takeover,” it moved slowly and sought to learn from its new brands. In 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car was marking its 50th anniversary. We had much to celebrate. With more than $9 billion in global revenue, […] -
Uncovering Your Hidden Occupancy Costs
Costing Magazine ArticleHow managers can cut expenses they once ignored. -
Learning to Play in the New “Share Economy”
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleCan an auto rental company fully integrate its car-sharing start-up without losing customers?
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The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
Winthrop Park Development
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Olitzki Property Holdings Catalyzes Change in Johannesburg
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The large-scale abandonment of property in inner-city Johannesburg had brought waves of crime, illegal building occupation and general disinvestment.... -
zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case B5705. Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buying a home... -
Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Rodrigo Nino, founder and CEO of commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Walden Woods
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class... -
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás... -
Domik Project: Interview with Cameron Sawyer, President, Sawyer and Co., Video
Global Business Case Study150.00View Details Shows Cameron Sawyer's response to issues raised in the case. -
Laree Verbindungen GmbH
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Laree is a German company that manufactures and supplies the fasteners that are used in construction to attach glass to the walls of buildings. Its executives... -
Aspen Financial
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Loren Rathbone's Investment: The Flashing Red Light
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, a retired farmer from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was facing a challenging investment decision. He had recently met with a real estate investment... -
Crow Holdings Development: Mass Timber Construction
Management Case Study8.95View Details Jim McCaffery and Cody Armbrister of Crow Holdings Development evaluate the pros and cons of committing to mass timber construction instead of conventional... -
Acting Entrepreneurially at Renterra
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details An entrepreneur has a venture idea that he believes can be successful. After his family's farm was sold to a company, the entrepreneur was contacted by... -
Arup: Building the Water Cube
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics... -
Golden Opportunity: Commercial Real Estate Valuation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Aurelia Dimas had been sent to investigate the various properties being offered by the State of California in the form of a sale-leaseback agreement.... -
Brooklyn Lodgers: 78 South Third St., Brooklyn, NY
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Nathalie Parizat and her husband, Hugo, were contemplating a new real estate investment. For two years they had been frustrated by and lamenting their... -
Del Webb Corp. (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dion and the other Del Webb directors were open to having Industrial Equity Pacific (IEP) and Webcott Holdings representation on the board. The IEP representative... -
WeWork in 2021: The Next Chapter
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case details the journey of Sandeep Mathrani as he took over as CEO of WeWork, a flexible space provider, in the aftermath of the company's attempted... -
The Amazon/Whole Foods Market Transaction: Implications & Impacts on REITs
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Friday, June 16, 2017, began with a jolt to the US commercial real estate market when Amazon announced its acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion....
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The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk: Value Creation in an Integrated Property Company, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case SMU929 -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 216055. James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring... -
Winthrop Park Development
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Olitzki Property Holdings Catalyzes Change in Johannesburg
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The large-scale abandonment of property in inner-city Johannesburg had brought waves of crime, illegal building occupation and general disinvestment.... -
The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note to case W20367 -
zipRealty: Leading a Start-up to the Next Level (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case B5705. Start-up company zipRealty is a real estate brokerage that leveraged the Internet on the belief that selling or buying a home... -
The Campbell Home (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleTeaching note for cases 918017, 918018, and 918019. -
Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Rodrigo Nino, founder and CEO of commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues...