Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership
- Dates: 03–08 NOV 2024
- Format: In-Person Learning takes place on the HBS campus or a designated location.
- Location: HBS Campus
- Fee: $14,500

"The program provided a framework for making design and market-oriented decisions effectively."
Summary
How do you achieve short-term stability and long-term growth in the unpredictable real estate marketplace? This program explores how forward-thinking real estate leaders are positioning their firms to seize growth opportunities and maximize asset value. Equipped with new strategies for enhancing operational efficiency, navigating market change, and unlocking new sources of capital, you will be ready to help your company compete more successfully in an increasingly complex industry.
This program is presented jointly with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Summary
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How do you achieve short-term stability and long-term growth in the unpredictable real estate marketplace? This program explores how forward-thinking real estate leaders are positioning their firms to seize growth opportunities and maximize asset value. Equipped with new strategies for enhancing operational efficiency, navigating market change, and unlocking new sources of capital, you will be ready to help your company compete more successfully in an increasingly complex industry.
This program is presented jointly with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Pursue the right opportunitiesPursue 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 projectsEffectively 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 networkExpand 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
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
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for executives with considerable real estate industry experience, including:
- Real estate owners and private real estate developers
- Lending officers, investors, REIT officers, and fund managers and advisors
- Real estate industry service providers, such as financial analysts, lawyers, architects, urban planners, and brokers

Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
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Who Should Attend
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This program is designed for executives with considerable real estate industry experience, including:
- Real estate owners and private real estate developers
- Lending officers, investors, REIT officers, and fund managers and advisors
- Real estate industry service providers, such as financial analysts, lawyers, architects, urban planners, and brokers
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
Dive Deeper into the ExperienceSee how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
Learning and Living at HBS
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
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Learning and Living at HBS
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When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
Admissions Criteria and Process
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
What You Will Learn
Through faculty presentations, case studies, interactive classroom exercises, and small group discussions, you will evaluate strategies for leading commercial real estate projects in a dynamic global marketplace. As you explore the latest approaches to capital assembly, design, and financial analysis, you will improve your ability to build the right strategies, overcome obstacles, and drive success.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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What You Will Learn
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Through faculty presentations, case studies, interactive classroom exercises, and small group discussions, you will evaluate strategies for leading commercial real estate projects in a dynamic global marketplace. As you explore the latest approaches to capital assembly, design, and financial analysis, you will improve your ability to build the right strategies, overcome obstacles, and drive success.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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How financial modeling unlocks valueHow financial modeling unlocks value
- Organizing joint ventures and private equity investors
- Examining land valuation and market demand
- Balancing financial analysis with project scope and aesthetics
- Using scenario planning to minimize surprises and evaluate real options
How design creates valueHow design creates value
- Optimizing concepts in urban design, architecture, and the built environment
- Analyzing customer segmentation and product strategy
- Assessing branding in design by using a benefit/cost approach
How project leadership maintains valueHow project leadership maintains value
- Constructing and implementing effective communication strategies
- Managing projects across vendors, suppliers, and capital sources
- Exploring bidding, cost control, and project scheduling
How strategy helps real estate organizations growHow strategy helps real estate organizations grow
- Analyzing how global economic and capital market scenarios affect business strategy
- Leading your real estate organization through periods of market and industry change
- Examining how to structure your organization for long-term business success
How financial modeling unlocks value
- Organizing joint ventures and private equity investors
- Examining land valuation and market demand
- Balancing financial analysis with project scope and aesthetics
- Using scenario planning to minimize surprises and evaluate real options
How design creates value
- Optimizing concepts in urban design, architecture, and the built environment
- Analyzing customer segmentation and product strategy
- Assessing branding in design by using a benefit/cost approach
How project leadership maintains value
- Constructing and implementing effective communication strategies
- Managing projects across vendors, suppliers, and capital sources
- Exploring bidding, cost control, and project scheduling
How strategy helps real estate organizations grow
- Analyzing how global economic and capital market scenarios affect business strategy
- Leading your real estate organization through periods of market and industry change
- Examining how to structure your organization for long-term business success
The HBS Advantage
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment
Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Lecturer in Architecture
Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Business Administration
Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
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The HBS Advantage
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Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Faculty CochairsHarvard University Graduate School of Design:Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment
FacultyHarvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health:Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Harvard University Graduate School of Design:Lecturer in Architecture
Harvard Kennedy School:Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Harvard Graduate School of Design:Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Design:Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design:Assistant Professor of Architecture
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Entrepreneurial ManagementTorstein Hagen Associate Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:FinanceArjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Strategy
Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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