Date	No	Topic	Links
February 8	1	The Real Estate and Construction Value System Risk, Reward, Capability, and Change	AEC Systems 2000 Keynote  Yes, the Internet Changes Everything
February 15	2	Project Risk in the Real Estate Value System Follow the Money: Understand the Intermediaries	On this site, from Ernst & Young (two large  PDF files):  Ernst and Young Taxonomy of Providers  Ernst and Young EBusiness in Real Estate On this site, other sources:  Patriots Stadium on time - finance Off this site:  Ernst&Young Kenneth Leventhal  LoopNet (brokerage)  TheRealm (brokerage)  CarrAmerica (REIT)  EquityOffice (REIT)  Constr Ind Institute Knowledge Str
February 22	N	No Class	None
March 1	3	Fundamentals of Competitive Advantage	Off this site:  Quicken.com eCoverage.com SwissRe (commercial example)
March 8	4	New Business Models: Competition	Freemarkets.com ProcureZone Buzzsaw (Autodesk procurement offering)
March 15	N	No Class	None
March 22	5	New Business Models: Cooperation	i2 Technologies Rentmaker Iron Planet  Li & Fung Corporate Site  Microsoft and EBay Exchange  Rentmaker Growth: March 20 Press Release  i2 and WebMethods alliance  Even Butler needs supply chain mgmt  Rentmaker Class Presentation (ppt 130k)
March 29 - MIT Vacation - No class	N	No Class	None
April 5	6	Responses to Date: Exchanges, Content, Community, Collaboration	Citadon (successor to eBricks) Entrepreneurial Resources for Papers and  Business Plans: EntreWorld, part of Ewing Kaufman foundation VentureCoach Babson Center for Entrepreneurship
April 12	7	Knowledge Management Strategy in Fragmented Industries	George B. H. Macomber Co. 2001
April 19	8	Consortia	On this site: Twentypounds: ENR Announcement in 2000 Twentypounds: Home Page in 2000 Twentypounds: Founding Members AECVenture Home in 2000 AEC Venture Members AEC Venture UK effort Jones Lang Lasalle on R.E. Technology Octane (3 way real estate consortium) Jones Lang Lasalle: Impact of E-Com in R.E. Off this site: Colliers Linbeck Skanska USA - "Owned" consortium Turner - another model for consortia? Lend Lease - Real Estate, Construction, Int'l AEC Venture live link Twentypounds live link Jones Lang LaSalle
April 26	9	The Project Network: One Central Database?	On this site: Collaborative Structures Invstmt Summary -  A Central Project Database? (pdf) Presentation by Arol Wolford of CMD: Technology in the Construction Industry Off this site: Revit - Parametric Building Model E-Builder - pioneer in project websites CMD Group: an aggregator? McGraw Hill Construction.com: an aggregator? Harvard Center for Design Informatics
May 3	10	New Economies of Scale International Approaches
May 10	11	Going to Market What High Tech Managers Need to Know about Brands	Primavera Systems  PrimeContract
May 17	12	Putting it Together: Dot.coms at Risk	Background Presentations by John Macomber to Industry Groups April 2001 Const Industry Roundtable: Profitability Cons Mgmt Edu Corp: Techno for Real World... Case Materials for Final Paper (also available in class May 10)(all in PDF format)  Beck Case Study  Beck Background, History, Future  Q & A with Brad Phillips, Destini director  Beck Historical Background  Beck General Information  Beck Customer Assessment Form  Beck Customer Quotes  Cost and Fee ProFormas: Baseline  Cost and Fee ProFormas: Allocating Savings  Cost and Fee ProFormas: Rapid Growth DESTINI demo (this is a LARGE [28 MB] .avi file-- be aware of your bandwidth)  DESTINI Demo Corporate links for Beck Group: Beck Group Destini