MIT

Construction Engineering and Management

E-Commerce and the Internet in Real Estate and Construction

Spring 2001 - 1.961    Permanent -  1.464
John D. Macomber, Senior Lecturer

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Date
No
Topic
Case
Assignment
February 8 1 The Real Estate and Construction Value System
Risk, Reward, Capability, and Change
Readings from Website
February 15 2 Project Risk in the Real Estate Value System
Follow the Money: Understand the Intermediaries
Cortlandt Town Center
An Overview of the Project Finance Market
February 22 N No Class None
March 1 3 Fundamentals of Competitive Advantage QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close
Problem Set #1
March 8 4 New Business Models: Competition Freemarkets.com
March 15 N No Class None
March 22 5 New Business Models: Cooperation Li & Fung, i2 Technologies
The Manager's Guide to Supply Chain Management
March 29 - MIT Vacation - No class N No Class None
April 5 6 Responses to Date: Exchanges, Content, Community, Collaboration eBricks.com
Paper # 1 
April 12 7 Knowledge Management
Strategy in Fragmented Industries
George B. H. Macomber Company
April 19 8 Consortia Colliers and the Technology Solution
Group vs. Group: How Alliance Networks Compete
April 26 9 The Project Network: One Central Database? Collaborative Structures
Problem Set # 2
May 3 10 New Economies of Scale
International Approaches
Citibank in China
May 10 11 Going to Market
What High Tech Managers Need to Know about Brands
PrimeContract
May 17 12 Putting it Together: Dot.coms at Risk The Beck Group:  Destiny
Final Paper Due

last revision Feb 6, 2001