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2009 Executive Education Programs, Summer
> Real Estate Development
Developing and Teaching Case Studies
07/22/2009 9:00 am - 07/23/2009 5:00 pm
Tuition $2000.00
AIA/CES units: 16 AIA/CES HSW units: No AIA/CES SD units: No
ASLA HSW units: No
Are you a senior executive or experienced architect who has done a project or had a professional experience you believe can be educational for students or others in your profession? Would you like to become a best-of-class speaker at professional meetings and conferences? If so, this course will give you the necessary arrows for your quiver! While anyone can get up and talk, few teach, empower, and excite.
The dual objectives of this two-day program are to understand how case studies are developed and to author a case study derived from a personal business experience. Teaching notes will be developed and tools will be given for becoming a dynamic, substantive speaker/lecturer. The highly interactive program will be divided into three parts:
(A) gaining insights into case studies through analysis of the best case studies;
(B) teaching the case study, including development of teaching notes; and
(C) developing dynamic tools for delivering outstanding presentations.
Participants will be sent reading materials to be completed prior to class and must come prepared to develop a case study based on a professional experience. Activities will include listening to and analyzing the most popular case studies; developing and presenting a small-group case study; developing and presenting an individual case study; and presenting a lecture that will be recorded on video and analyzed. The outcome will be a draft case study and teaching notes. A finalized case study must be completed within 60 days of completion of the class. Class participants may be asked to present at GSD programs.
Participants will:
(1) examine exemplary case studies.
(2) learn how to use personal experience to develop and author a case study.
(3) understand the components of high-quality presentations.
(4) gain experience presenting case studies to an audience.
Academic Leader(s)
Law, Linda
Linda S. Law has one of the only women-owned real estate development firms in the U.S. that undertakes institutional-quality development. This Silicon Valley firm specializes in high-impact development projects that have positive fiscal and socioeconomic effects on the host communities. Ms. Law is an alumna of the Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, is a founding member and the vice chair of the Harvard Real Estate Academic Inititiative and is a frequent instructor at Harvard University and U.C. Berkeley.
Guest Speaker(s)
Douglas, Camille
Camille Douglas, principal, MainStreet Capital Partners, New York, NY, is a senior executive in the real estate industry with over 30 years' experience developing and executing real estate financial strategy, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, debt and equity financings, partnerships and restructurings, both domestic and global. Her work has also included pioneering work on commercial mortgage back securities, major project and corporate real estate restructurings, including the privatization of Canary Wharf Group in 2004; and private equity investment in international and emerging markets, with a particular focus on the UK as well as in Brazil since 2006. Since 1999, she has been a principal of MainStreet Capital Partners, specializing in transaction oriented real estate investment advisory services. Her clients have included leading real estate companies around the world: the Canary Wharf Group and Westbrook Partners in London, Cyrela Commercial Properties in Brazil, Cadillac Fairview and IPC US Income Commercial REIT in Canada, and the LeFrak Organization, Boston Properties, Boston Consulting Group, and Yale and Brown Universities in the United States. Ms. Douglas received her Master of Urban Planning degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1977. During her studies at Harvard University, she served as a teaching assistant to Harvard Business School Professor William Poorvu and studied at both the Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. Ms. Douglas received a B.A. from Smith College in 1973, and also studied as an exchange student at Williams College. In addition, she has studied land use and environmental law at the University of British Columbia School of Law and Albany Law School respectively.
Marchant, Edward
Edward Marchant is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and teaches courses on real estate development and finance as well as on the development, financing, and management of affordable housing. He also serves as a core faculty member in the Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative. As a real estate professional working in Boston at Community Builders, Inc., and later at John M. Corcoran Co., Mr. Marchant was actively involved in the development, financing, construction, and management of residential and commercial real estate assets for more than 20 years. He has been an independent real estate advisor since 1990, and his clients include nonprofit and for-profit developers and investors, higher education institutions, and governmental housing agencies. Mr. Marchant received a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Nanda, Ashish
Ashish Nanda is faculty chair of Harvard Law School's Executive Education program, research director, Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry, and adjunct professor of law at Harvard Law School. He teaches "Professional Services" in the J.D. program at Harvard Law School. Before joining HLS, Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years, where he taught "Professional Services" in the M.B.A. program and the HBS executive education program "Leading Professional Service Firms." A recipient of the Henry B. Arthur Fellowship, the Center in Ethics and the Professions Fellowship, and the President of India Gold Medal (twice), he has published several case studies and Harvard Business Review articles and is a coauthor (with Tom DeLong) of Professional Services: Cases & Text (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003). Nanda has advised accounting, law, investment banking, management consulting, advertising, and executive search firms. His work with these firms has spanned strategic planning, review of specific organizational practices and systems, leadership programs, and personal coaching. Before coming to Harvard, he was an executive with the Tata group of companies in India.
Vogel, John H., Jr.
John Vogel has served on the faculty of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth since 1992. He is the associate faculty director of the James M. Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship. The goal of the Initiative is to ensure that issues and activities related to corporate citizenship are an integral part of the Tuck M.B.A. experience. The "Business Week Guide" to Business Schools named him as one of Tuck's "Outstanding Faculty" members. He has twenty years of experience teaching at graduate business schools. In addition to Tuck, he has served on the faculty of Harvard Business School and The Yale School of Management. He has an extensive consulting practice, which nicely complements his work with M.B.A. students. He provides training courses to Bank of America and Wachovia. He is the author or co-author of 27 Harvard Business School case studies and 31 Tuck case studies about real estate, non-profit management, or entrepreneurship in the social sector. He has co-authored two books, written chapters in several other books, and written numerous articles about real estate and non-profit management. Professor Vogel earned an M.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
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