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Alumni Real Estate Conference
Location: 
Charles Hotel, Cambridge MA
Date/Time: 
October 21-22, 2009

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

3:00-7:00pm      Registration
Charles Hotel, 3rd Floor

3:30-5:00pm      Case Study Session: “Busse Place”
William Poorvu, Harvard Business School

5:15-6:30pm      Intersections of Real Estate and Design
Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Faculty of Design
Richard Peiser, Spear Professor of Real Estate Development
Leland Cott, Adjunct Professor of Urban Design
Andrea Leers, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies


6:30-9:30pm      Cocktails and Dinner
with Presentation of HREAI Distinguished Leadership Award to Joseph W. O’Connor

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

8:00-9:15am          Networking Breakfast, Welcome and Agenda

9:15-10:15am        The New Financial Markets: A Command Economy?
Roger Orf, Citi Property Investors
Joel Comer, Sandler O’Neill + Partners
Ani Vartanian, Department of the Treasury
Seth Wheeler, Department of the Treasury

10:30-11:30am       Drivers of Demand: The Outlook for Commercial Real Estate
Martha O’Mara, Corporate Portfolio Analytics
Bill Alexander, Tyco International
Jim Carras, McDonald’s Corporation
Nick Hodge, Kroger Corporation

11:30am-12:30pm    From the Front Lines: Residential Real Estate and the Credit Crisis
Ron Peltier, HomeServices of America
Fred Cooper, Toll Brothers

12:30-1:15pm          Lunch

1:15-3:30pm            Will There Be Financing For Deals in 2010?
Cia Buckley, Dune Capital Management
Tom Fink, Trepp LLC
Jackson Hsieh, UBS
Richard Parkus, Deutsche Bank Securities