Features

Fundamentals: Cybersecurity Oversight and Strategy for Commercial Real Estate

Continued in Volume 42, Number 10 and Volume 43, Number 1. Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Oversight and Risk Management Anyone who deals with large amounts of data, especially from multiple sources, is vulnerable to the various attacks we read about every day.  Cybersecurity has become a major issue for commercial real estate in many more ways… Read more

Perspectives

Industry Legends: Ray Torto, Ph.D., CRE

Interviewer: Steve Felix Co-Founder and Partner Felix / Weiner Consulting Group New York, New York Interviewee: Ray Torto, Ph.D., CRE Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, Massachusetts Felix:  Ray, how did you get started in the commercial real estate industry? Torto: It was a little bit of a lucky break. I was working in the… Read more

Editor’s Note – Global Cities Issue

Change — like death and taxes — is certain and inevitable, so much so that it is even a fundamental premise of economic and valuation theory. Although no one has a crystal ball, it is, nonetheless, important to be able to predict the future as it is the foresight and anticipation of what is to… Read more

Discussions & Interviews

Keynote Address with Chip Conley

Speaker: Chip Conley Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy, Airbnb Moderator: Elizabeth Youngblood Lambird Executive Director, Stanford SPIRE “Dramatic disruption in the hospitality business” is what Chip Conley, Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy described as the cause and the effect of his company, Airbnb, when he spoke to the Global Cities in an Era… Read more

Discussions & Interviews

Keynote Address with Luís Bettencourt, Ph.D.

Speaker: Luís Bettencourt, Ph.D. Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute Introduction: Howard C. Gelbtuch, CRE Principal, Greenwich Realty Advisors, Inc. Dr. LuÍs M.A. Bettencourt is Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico. His academic background is in theoretical physics, but he has done significant work on economics and… Read more

Discussions & Interviews

Urban Infrastructure and Sustainability

Speakers: Don Clark Principal, Cathexes H. Kit Miyamoto, Ph.D. CEO, Miyamoto International Steven Straus President, Glumac Moderator: Ed Friedrichs Friedrichs Group and Partner, Donald J. Clark Group Resiliency and sustainability are keys to creating smart cities for the 21st century and beyond. Creating a collaborative environment among all stakeholders, the Developers, Architects, Engineers, City Officials and Staff, as... Read More