Steers Center for Global Real Estate
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University Partners With Real Estate Community to Create Opportunities for Students, Business Leaders to Solve ESG Problems
An article by Molly Fleenor, associate director of communications.
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$3.2M Gift to Create New ESG Group at Georgetown McDonough
“Issues of ESG are vitally important today and will only gain strength overtime across the business landscape,” Robert Steers said in a news release. “We believe that the ESG Solutions Group will bring an unbiased, research-first approach to developing knowledge for the commercial real estate industry.”
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$3.2 Million Gift to Create Steers Center for Global Real Estate’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Solutions Group
The Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is proud to announce the launch of the Steers ESG Solutions Group established through a $3.2 million g
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Trump May Face a Tough Time Getting a Loan Come Jan. 21, Experts Say
“Anyone who goes through a partner risk-assessment has got to factor this into their calculus, especially any new partners,” said Matthew Cypher, director of Georgetown University’s Steers Center for Global Real Estate, and formerly of Invesco’s real estate acquisitions group.
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Q&A: How the Federal Government Will Impact Office Leasing in the D.C. Area in 2021
CBRE has teamed with Georgetown University’s Steers Center for Global Real Estate on a new report dissecting how the federal government influences office demand in the Washington, D.C. region.
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Steers Center Creates ESG-Inspired Internship Program for Students Impacted by COVID-19
The economic fallout associated with COVID-19 made it especially important for the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to ensure students had
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The Best Business Schools for a Real Estate MBA
Georgetown McDonough’s MBA program features a specialization in real estate and the opportunity to work with the Steers Center for Global Estate, which offers “unparalleled access to the real estate industry at a global level” and a “multi-faceted approach that harnesses the best of Georgetown University and the Washington, D.C. real estate market.” The McDonough real estate MBA “boutique program” boasts “relationships in the private sector from around the world” that “engage students in practical, real-world experience. The curriculum includes courses in four different quadrants coupled with up to four modules — a total of eight courses in the subject — with coursework that includes Real Estate Public Equity, Real Estate Private Equity, Real Estate Public Debt, and Real Estate Private Debt, as well as a Real Estate Clinic.
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What the New Virtual MBA Classroom is Like
Matthew Cypher, who is the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate and director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business welcomes full-time MBAs to his Real Estate Clinic course at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on the first day of April. It’s a similar greeting he’d be giving to students rushing into his classroom in Washington D.C. But on this early April afternoon, he’s greeting virtual heads popping up onto a computer screen. This is the new reality of residential full-time MBA programs across the country and globe. Once sitting next to one another, the students are spread to who knows where.
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Why Buying Is Not Always Smarter Than Renting
“If you move every year or two, there’s a cost to that, financial and emotional,” said George Yeonas, managing director of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate at Georgetown University.
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Can An MBA Help Build A Career In Property?
Even as a child at school, Aaron Bothner had a passion for property. “My parents were thinking of moving home and I went with them to look at houses and work out how they were priced,” he recalls. “Real estate fascinates me because it’s living history,” says Bothner, 33, now a vice-president for real estate acquisitions at Wafra, a Kuwaiti state-backed investment firm in New York City. “Every building represents a confluence of what happened in the past and where people envisioned the future.” An MBA at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Washington DC, in 2014 helped lay the foundations of his career in property….Matthew Cypher, director of the Steers Center, adds there will be jobs in acquisitions too: “In a recession, if you have money, you’ll be feasting on assets with low prices. As Warren Buffet says, ‘be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful’.” Subscription required.
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