Circle Academy Meeting Topics

Spring 2013
CRE Debt: Have Markets Normalized?
Discussion Leader: Spencer Haber, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, H/2 Capital Partners

Fall 2012
Discussion Leader: Martin Cicco CC’78, Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Evercore Partners

Spring 2012
Being a Real Estate Entrepreneur, Young!
Discussion Leader: Mark Caplan '84, President, Time Group

Fall 2011
Challenges to Effective Renegotiation of Residential Mortgages (PDF Sept. 2011)
Discussion Leader: Tomasz Piskorski, Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Spring 2011
An interactive case study: "Liquidity in a Credit Drought: Equity Residential (EQR)"
Discussion Leader: David Neithercut '82, President and CEO, Equity Residential

Fall 2010
Housing, Credit, Real Estate, and the Economy
Discussion Leader: Chris Mayer,  Senior Vice Dean and Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Spring 2010
Distressed Debt Investing: The Hancock Tower & Garage (a real estate case study)
Discussion Leader: Lynne B. Sagalyn, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Director, The Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Fall 2009
Distressed Real Estate
Discussion Leader: John Klopp, CEO, Capital Trust, Inc.

Spring 2009
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
Discussion Leader: Eric Abrahamson, Professor of Management, Columbia Business School

Fall 2008
The Venturesome Economy
Discussion Leader: Amar Bhide, Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Summer 2008
Are Short Sellers Evil?
Discussion Leader: Charles Jones, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

Spring 2008
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
Discussion Leader: William Duggan, Professor of Management, Columbia Business School

Fall 2007
Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies Function
Discussion Leader: Richard Peach, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Summer 2007
Is Good Governance always Good for the Shareholders?
Discussion Leader: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Spring 2007
Bubbles, Fundamentals and Superstar Cities: The future path of high real estate prices
Discussion Leader: Chris Mayer, Senior Vice Dean and Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate, Columbia Business School

Winter 2007
Long Term Trends in Globalized Interest Rates
Discussion Leader: Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School