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Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership

Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership
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    Status: Accepting Applications
  • Dates: 15–20 OCT 2023
  • Format: In-Person Learning takes place on the HBS campus or a designated location.
  • Location: HBS Campus
  • Fee: $14,500
  • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
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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
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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
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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.
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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

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 Experience
Play video
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Inside the ClassroomInside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
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We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?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.Discover more about business. And yourself.
Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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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.

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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.

Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

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.
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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. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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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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.

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. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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.

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

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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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Constructing and implementing effective communication strategies
  • Managing projects across vendors, suppliers, and capital sources
  • Exploring bidding, cost control, and project scheduling
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  • 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

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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.

Faculty Cochairs
John D. Macomber
John D. Macomber
John D. Macomber

John D. Macomber

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

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Bing Wang
Bing Wang
Bing Wang

Bing Wang

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment

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Faculty
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen

Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health:

Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science

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Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Lecturer in Architecture

Read Full Bio

Edward H. Marchant
Edward H. Marchant
Edward H. Marchant

Edward H. Marchant

Harvard Kennedy School:

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design:

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Holly Samuelson
Holly Samuelson
Holly Samuelson

Holly Samuelson

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Read Full Bio

David A. Smith
David A. Smith
David A. Smith

David A. Smith

Affordable Housing Institute:

Founder and CEO

Read Full Bio

Boris Vallée
Boris Vallée
Boris Vallée

Boris Vallée

Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

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Andy Wu
Andy Wu
Andy Wu

Andy Wu

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Strategy

Read Full Bio

Charles F. Wu
Charles F. Wu
Charles F. Wu

Charles F. Wu

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

Read Full Bio

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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.

Faculty Cochairs
John D. Macomber
John D. Macomber
John D. Macomber

John D. Macomber

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

Read Full Bio

Bing Wang
Bing Wang
Bing Wang

Bing Wang

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment

Read Full Bio

Faculty
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen

Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health:

Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science

Read Full Bio

Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Lecturer in Architecture

Read Full Bio

Edward H. Marchant
Edward H. Marchant
Edward H. Marchant

Edward H. Marchant

Harvard Kennedy School:

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design:

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Holly Samuelson
Holly Samuelson
Holly Samuelson

Holly Samuelson

Harvard University Graduate School of Design:

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Read Full Bio

David A. Smith
David A. Smith
David A. Smith

David A. Smith

Affordable Housing Institute:

Founder and CEO

Read Full Bio

Boris Vallée
Boris Vallée
Boris Vallée

Boris Vallée

Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

Read Full Bio

Andy Wu
Andy Wu
Andy Wu

Andy Wu

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Strategy

Read Full Bio

Charles F. Wu
Charles F. Wu
Charles F. Wu

Charles F. Wu

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Finance

Read Full Bio

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Asia Pacific
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Europe
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Latin America
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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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Your Peers Expand Your Learning

Global Perspective Map Desktop Global Perspective Map Tablet
Global Perspective
Experience the world in your classroom.
Global Perspective
Experience the world in your classroom.
4%
Africa
10%
Asia Pacific
14%
Europe
18%
Latin America
13%
Middle East
41%
North America
4%Africa
10%Asia Pacific
14%Europe
18%Latin America
13%Middle East
41%North America
4%
10%
14%
18%
13%
41%
Experience
Experience
Years worked
Years worked
Experience
Years worked
10% Less than 10 yearsLess than 10 years
16% 10-14 years10-14 years
29% 15-19 years15-19 years
20% 20-24 years20-24 years
15% 25-29 years25-29 years
5% 30-34 years30-34 years
4% 35-39 years35-39 years
1% 40 years or more40 years or more
10% Less than 10 yearsLess than 10 years
16% 10-14 years10-14 years
29% 15-19 years15-19 years
20% 20-24 years20-24 years
15% 25-29 years25-29 years
5% 30-34 years30-34 years
4% 35-39 years35-39 years
1% 40 years or more40 years or more
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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