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    Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership

    Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership
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    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

    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.

    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.

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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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

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    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.
    Details

    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
    Participating Companies Have Included:
    CBRE Group
    Country Garden
    Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
    GD&K Group
    Harrison, Walker & Harper, LP
    Infonavit
    JP Morgan
    Microsoft
    Mitsui
    PT Jones Lang LaSalle
    Sterling Bank
    Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.
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    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
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    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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    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
    Participating Companies Have Included:
    CBRE Group
    Country Garden
    Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
    GD&K Group
    Harrison, Walker & Harper, LP
    Infonavit
    JP Morgan
    Microsoft
    Mitsui
    PT Jones Lang LaSalle
    Sterling Bank
    Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.
    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    Play video
    Play video
    Inside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    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

    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

    When considering applications for this program, the Admissions Committee seeks a balance of organization and industry representation, as well as candidates' professional experience and current organizational responsibilities.
    Application and Notification Deadlines
    You may apply in one of the following admission rounds:
    • Round 1 Application due: 24 FEB 2020; Notified no later than: 09 MAR 2020
    • Round 2 Application due: 20 APR 2020; Notified no later than: 04 MAY 2020
    • Round 3 Application due: 13 JUL 2020; Notified no later than: 20 JUL 2020

    Applications submitted after 13 JUL 2020 will be considered on a rolling, space-available basis.

    This program fills quickly and we advise you to apply early. We respect the time-sensitive nature of your admission status, and factor that into our notification deadlines. Applications submitted after the final deadline will be considered on a rolling, space-available basis. If you are waitlisted for the program, you will only be contacted if a seat opens up for you before the program starts.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    When considering applications for this program, the Admissions Committee seeks a balance of organization and industry representation, as well as candidates' professional experience and current organizational responsibilities.
    Application and Notification Deadlines
    You may apply in one of the following admission rounds:
    • Round 1 Application due: 24 FEB 2020; Notified no later than: 09 MAR 2020
    • Round 2 Application due: 20 APR 2020; Notified no later than: 04 MAY 2020
    • Round 3 Application due: 13 JUL 2020; Notified no later than: 20 JUL 2020

    Applications submitted after 13 JUL 2020 will be considered on a rolling, space-available basis.

    This program fills quickly and we advise you to apply early. We respect the time-sensitive nature of your admission status, and factor that into our notification deadlines. Applications submitted after the final deadline will be considered on a rolling, space-available basis. If you are waitlisted for the program, you will only be contacted if a seat opens up for you before the program starts.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.
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    More Admissions Information
    Program content, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
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    HBS professor John Macomber speaks with CNBC Africa.

    John D. Macomber
    Faculty Cochair
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    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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    Play video

    HBS professor John Macomber speaks with CNBC Africa.

    John D. Macomber
    Faculty Cochair
    Watch the Video
    Need Help? Contact Us:
    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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