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Wharton News
Job Coaching and Job FairThe Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center’s Placement Committee and the Wharton Real Estate Clubs initiated two innovative and very well received programs to provide an efficient meeting venue for Real Estate Center members wishing to hire the ‘cream of the crop,’ and for those students pursuing real estate career opportunities in a difficult job market. More than seventy students attended the December Job Coaching Session and we would like to thank the following real estate professionals who provided expert advice to our students. Scott Janzen, Lend Lease Real Estate Investments; Jim Mazzarelli, Liberty Property Trust; Mitchell Morgan, Morgan Properties; Hether Smith, Julien J. Studley; and Dani Spaventa, Berwind Property Group.Nine companies participated in our highly successful January Job Fair. The companies manned informational booths and met with interested students. The excellent turnout of students kept company representatives busy all morning. Many thanks to the following company representatives for their participation: AvalonBay - Sophie Chan, James Lin; Binswanger Company - David R. Binswanger Paul Carabasi, David Fahey; Equity Office Properties - Chris Mundy, Tom Bakke; General Growth Properties - Amy Priske, Ari Silverberg; O’Neill Properties - Kim Mahan, Craig Guers; Toll Brothers - Tracey Depedro; Vornado - Michelle Felman, Wendy Silverstein; Wells Fargo - Timothy Proctor; W.P.Commercial - Richard Previdi, Michael Gribbon.
Real Estate Club - Job TreksThe Wharton MBA Real Estate Club organized a job trek to New York in December. The students attended presentations at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Lehman Brothers kindly hosted a happy hour. The students were welcomed at J.P. Morgan by Greg Belew, a recent past-president of the MBA Real Estate Club.In January, twenty real estate club members traveled to Washington, DC. The students met with key real estate personnel from J.E. Robert Companies, The JBG Companies, Fannie Mae, Hines and Clark Realty Company. Students learned about recent projects and deals and discussed trends in the market. The students met with Wharton alumni at these companies who reviewed the skills needed by an MBA graduate to be successful in each aspect of real estate. We extend our thanks to all the companies who participated. If your company would like to host our students on a future job trek, please contact Janice Leberman lebermaj@wharton.upenn.edu for more information.
Professor Linneman in Orlando and St. MoritzThe Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate, Peter Linneman, was in Orlando earlier this month where he was the keynote speaker for Trammell Crow Residential Market Watch. Later in January, Linneman moderated a panel on "Investments and Capital Markets: Deals Done and to Be Expected" for the Global Real Estate Institute Chairman’s Retreat.
Professor Susan Wachter Named Fellow of Urban Land InstituteSusan Wachter, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, spoke on the "Future of Cities" at the Bank of America/ Brookings Institute seminar in Washington DC. Wachter was in California in December, where she spoke on "Modeling Retail Site Selection" at a conference on "Location-Based Services" sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Professor Wachter was recently named an Academic Fellow by the Urban Land Institute.
Rybczynski Participates in the Chicago Humanities FestivalWitold Rybczynski, Meyerson Professor of Urbanism, participated in the Chicago Humanities Festival recently where he disputed Le Corbusier’s premise that "Style is like a feather in a woman’s hat, nothing more." He was also in Atlanta on behalf of the Olmsted Linear Park Alliance to talk about the urban parks and plans of the nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. And, in Buffalo, N.Y., he took part in the "Just Buffalo Literary Society" lecture series. He is the author of the best-selling book, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Olmsted and America in the 19th Century.
Professor Chris Mayer Elected to Prestigious BoardWharton Real Estate Professor Chris Mayer was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the leading organization for university professors in real estate and urban economics. He is also on the Board of Editors of their journal, Real Estate Economics.
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