I had coffee this morning with an engineer who is going back to business school in order to segue into real estate development. This is a fairly typical journey. Lots of people come into development from a related discipline. In my case, it was architecture… Read More
Sam Zell, the billionaire real estate investor, died this week at the age of 81. That seems young to me. Or maybe I’m just being overly optimistic about life expectancy. This is around the US average. Whatever the case, if you work in real estate,… Read More
Applications to American business schools, including MBA programs, have fallen for five straight years according to this recent WSJ article. Compared to last year, business school applications to US schools are down about 9.1%; whereas they have been rising in other parts of the world.… Read More
Scott Galloway, professor of Marketing and Brand Strategy at NYU Stern, recently delivered a presentation on the Gang of Four: Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. These dominant companies are also often referred to as the “Four Horsemen.” The video is about 16 minutes long and… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js I recently heard someone say, in a pejorative way, that all real estate developers think of what they build as “products.” I imagine this is in contrast to thinking in terms of buildings as spaces for people to live, raise a family, do their life’s work,… Read More
After yesterday’s post about speed, price, and quality, a friend of mine from Rotman emailed me and said: but what about integrative thinking? When I was doing my MBA at Rotman and Roger Martin was the dean, integrative thinking was a significant part of the… Read More
Most of you have probably heard of the STEM subjects. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. These academic fields have been the focus of many federal governments around the world as they have been seen as the key to driving innovation. But what… Read More
I continue to be amazed by the unmet demand for real estate (development) education here in Canada. Following yesterday’s post on the real estate development process, I received a few emails from readers asking about the best university programs (MBA, MRED, etc.) and the best… Read More
Roger Martin – who is the former dean of the Rotman School of Management and one of my favorite business thinkers – recently published a post on the Harvard Business Review blog called: The Dark Side of Efficient Markets. In it, he makes an interesting… Read More
Earlier this week a good friend of mine from Rotman, Frank Luengo, launched his own blog called Frank’s Vault. Given that he has used the same theme as I have here, I like to think it was inspired by ATC 🙂 But whatever the case… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 