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2016 Real Estate Industry Leader Profile: MaryAnne Gilmartin
No full text[Excerpt] Cornell University and the Baker Program in Real Estate are pleased to announce the 2016 Real Estate Industry Leader Award recipient: MaryAnne Gilmartin, President & CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies. MaryAnne’s leadership in the real estate industry has made a powerful and positive impact on society as a driving force behind several of the highest-profile, largest-scale additions to the urban landscape of New York City
Findings from the 2015 Institutional Real Estate Capital Allocations Monitor
Get PDFSince 2013, the Baker Program in Real Estate and Hodes Weill & Associates have co-sponsored the Institutional Real Estate Capital Allocations Monitor (the “Allocations Monitor”). The Allocations Monitor was created to conduct a comprehensive annual assessment of institutional allocations to real estate investments through analyzing trends and collecting survey responses of institutional portfolios and allocations by region, type, and size of institution. The Allocations Monitor reports on the role of real estate investments in institutional portfolios, and the impact of institutional allocation trends on the investment management industry
Impact of Rapid Transit on the Residential Market in Hudson County, New Jersey
No full textThe New York Metropolitan region is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world, and the single largest in North America.[1] It is also one of the most prominent economic centers, with New York City at the epicenter of its growth. With the entire region growing rapidly over the last decade, it is essential to analyze the socio-economic changes in order to understand the impact it has on commercial real estate. With its focus on housing rentals, this study aims to highlight housing costs as a function of rapid transit over time
FRESH: A Food-service Sustainability Rating for Hospitality Sector Events
Get PDFThis report presents a metric called FRESH (for Foodservice Impact Rating for Environmentally Sustainable Hospitality Events). FRESH can be used to evaluate the performance of any foodservice meal period or event in the hospitality sector with regards to its sustainability, based on seven measurements. These measures are: a (post-consumer) food-waste indicator, a no-show indicator (when unexpectedly few people show up), an over-show measure (when too many people show up), a planning indicator (measuring intentional overproduction), a portion-size indicator (measuring per-guest consumption against expectations), an economies of scale indicator, and a post-event indicator (which depends on disposal approaches). FRESH can help managers, authorities, and potential guests evaluate the sustainability of food production in any establishment
A Comparison of the Performance of Brand-Affiliated and Unaffiliated Hotel Properties
Get PDFResearch has shown that performance differences exist between brand-affiliated hotels and unaffiliated properties. However, the extant empirical results are mixed. Some research has shown that brands outperform unaffiliated hotels on various metrics, whereas other research has shown the opposite. This article analyzes this issue using a matched-pair approach where we compare the performance differences of brand-affiliated and unaffiliated properties between 1998 and 2010. The matched-pair approach ensures that local competitive conditions as well as hotel characteristics are the same across the comparison pair. In addition, all potential omitted-variable bias and model misspecifications are avoided. Thus, to address our research question, we compare branded hotels with unaffiliated properties that are identical in age, market segment, location, and duration of operation, as well as having a similar number of rooms. Our analysis shows that performance differentials are present, albeit not systematic. We found no consistent advantages in all segments for either the affiliated hotels or the comparable unaffiliated properties, taking into account our comparison factors. That said, the methodology of our approach yields results that are more informative to the affiliation choice of owners and to the growth strategies of hotel brand–owner companies than those of previous empirical studies
The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process
No full textThe Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE) helps case workers who represent children in state custody by recommending prospective families for adoption. We describe PAE\u27s operational challenges using case worker surveys and analyze child outcomes through a regression analysis of data collected over multiple years. A match recommendation spreadsheet tool implemented by PAE incorporates insights from this analysis and allows PAE managers to better utilize available information. Using a discrete-event simulation of PAE, we justify the value of a statewide adoption network and demonstrate the importance of better information about family preferences for increasing the percentage of children who are successfully adopted. Finally, we detail a series of simple improvements that PAE achieved through collecting more valuable information and aligning incentives for families to provide useful preference information
Shackled High Speed Traders? Latency Reduction and Short Sale Bans
Get PDFWe examine the effects of two juxtaposed events – regulatory short sale bans and exchange efforts to facilitate high-frequency trading (HFT) – on multiple dimensions of market quality. Between 2011 and 2013, the Spanish Stock Exchange (SSE) launched a smart trading platform (SIBE-Smart) and introduced colocation facilities to attract HFT. During this time two short sale bans were imposed on the SSE. Comparing the market before and after these events, we find that while SIBE-Smart attracts some HFT, colocation does not. However, following both of these events, liquidity and price efficiency decline. Colocation, implemented during the second ban, is accompanied by an across-the-board deterioration in market quality. Strikingly, SIBE-Smart, which precedes a ban, also brings significant reductions in market quality. These results are in contrast to existing studies that show increased HFT resulting from technological inducements. We conclude that the beneficial effects of HFT on liquidity and price efficiency are negated in the presence of regulatory restrictions on trading
In Search of a Healthy Future: Design
No full textPanelists discuss the consideration of service and healthy living in design, Oct. 10, 2016 at the Cornell Symposium for Hospitality, Health, & Design. Features: Mardelle Shepley, Associate Director of CIHF; Jennifer Aliber, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch; Alan Dilani, Professor, Architect/Public Health, International Academy for Design & Health; Lancy Hosey, Chief Sustainability Officer/Principal, Perkins Eastman; and Naomi Sachs, Founding Director, Therapeutic Landscapes Network
Revenue Management in Restaurants: Unbundling Pricing for Reservations from the Core Service
Get PDFA substantial minority of restaurant guests would be willing to pay separately for a restaurant reservation, while a much larger group is not supportive of this approach, according to an online survey of 297 U.S. residents. Those respondents who are most likely to accept the idea of paying for a reservation represent customers who are also relatively familiar with this practice. The survey respondents were reacting to three possible scenarios for unbundling the value of the reservation from that of the meal itself. Based in part on actual industry practice, the three scenarios are (1) a reservations company charges for a reservation but does not share the proceeds with the restaurant; (2) a reservations company charges for a reservation and shares the revenue with the restaurant; and (3) the restaurant charges a reservation fee without involving a third party. For revenue management purposes, familiarity with the unbundling practice is related to guest acceptance of that practice. Since numerous companies now sell prime restaurant reservations as a separate product, it seems likely that over time the guests’ familiarity with paying for at least some reservations will grow, along with their acceptance of the practice
Autonomous Vehicles and Commercial Real Estate
No full textHardly a day goes by without the release of a handful of news stories about autonomous vehicles (or AVs for short). The proverbial “tipping point” of awareness has been reached in the public consciousness as AV technology is quickly becoming the new focus of firms from Silicon Valley to Detroit and beyond. Automation has, and will continue to have far-reaching implications for many human activities, but for driving, the technology is here. Google has been in talks with automaker Ford (1), Elon Musk has declared that Tesla will have the appropriate technology in two years (2), GM is paired-up with Lyft (3), Uber is in development-mode (4), Microsoft and Volvo have announced a partnership (5), Apple has been piloting its top-secret project “Titan” (6), Toyota is working on its own technology (7), as is BMW (8). Audi (9) made a splash by sending a driverless A7 concept car 550 miles from San Francisco to Las Vegas just in time to roll-into the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. Clearly, the race is on