Real Estate Management: Finance, Design, and Leadership

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  • Real Estate Management:
    Finance, Design, and Leadership


    October 5–23, 2020 (Online)
    October 3–8, 2021 (Harvard Business School Campus)

Program Announcement

The in-person Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership session originally scheduled for October 4-9, 2020 has been cancelled. Please consider applying to the related offering, Real Estate Management Program—Virtual, running October 5-23, 2020, or the next in-person iteration October 3-8, 2021.

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Date: October 5–23, 2020
Location: Online
Tuition: $7,500.00

Tuition covers all instructional materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Participants receive a Harvard Certificate upon completion.
Apply via HBS website
This program is by admission only.

Course - Jointly Held - Real Estate Management: Finance, Design, and Leadership

Offered in conjunction with Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Program Description

In this virtual program, you'll confront COVID-19, rent and mortgage moratoriums, and macroeconomic uncertainty head-on. Designed to help real estate executives adapt to the pressing challenges of today, this live online program offers a holistic and panoramic view of responses across the entire real estate industry supply chain from every angle—from public health, architecture, and urban planning to finance, deal restructuring, and construction. As you explore the latest approaches to issues such as social distancing, building sanitation, occupant sensors and surveys, and financial adjustments, you will improve your ability to successfully navigate both the COVID-19 slowdown and the related real estate recession.

Key Benefits

Focused on the best practices and emerging trends in the global real estate industry, this program helps you expand your real estate expertise and strengthen your strategic decision-making capabilities. You will gain critical insights into the finance and leadership issues facing the real estate development, design, and construction industries—and return with the frameworks to structure your organization for long-term growth.

Pursue the right opportunities

  • Identify and analyze emerging opportunities
  • Understand real estate benchmarking indicators
  • Evolve your firm's structure to match your strategy and growth stage

Effectively lead projects

  • Develop the optimal financing approach
  • Create more value through effective design
  • Deliver projects on time and on budget
  • Build and contract with industry talent

Expand your personal and professional network

  • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe 
  • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

Course - Who Should Attend - Real Estate Management: Finance, Design, and Leadership

Who Should Attend

  • Executive decision-makers from any country and any sector of the commercial real estate supply chain such as investors, builders, lenders, developers, designers, property managers, and tenants
  • Properties involved may include office, multi-family residential, retail, hospital, and industrial

This program features all-new content and is appropriate both for new and past participants of our HBS Executive Education real estate programs.

Course - Instructor - John D. Macomber

John D. Macomber
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Course - Instructor - Bing Wang

Bing Wang
Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, Harvard GSD
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Real Estate Management:
Finance, Design, and Leadership
Date: October 5–23, 2020
Location: Online
Tuition: $7,500.00

Tuition covers all instructional materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Participants receive a Harvard Certificate upon completion.

Apply via HBS website

This program is by admission only. The application process is handled by Harvard Business School Executive Education.