Real Estate, Finance, and Economics

I have taught basic finance and accounting courses on the college level at various points in my career. And I have served as a corporate director of financial communications and investor relations, as well as vice president of a regional chapter of NIRI (the National Investor Relations Institute). So I'm extremely confortable with finance, accounting, and economics topics. For a number of years, I was a contributing editor at the Journal of Property Management in Chicago, and I start with a particularly fascinating story from that excellent - and sophisticated - publication.

  

I was a contributing editor and frequent contributor at the Journal of Property Management, the magazine of the Institute of Real Estate Management in Chicago, for a number of years. I learned a lot from my association with this journal, as the stories assigned tended to be both timely and intellectually challenging, designed for a very specialized audience. This one, "Lessons From the Inferno: Emergency Preparedness at the World Trade Center," took me into the bowels of that doomed structure after the first terrorist attack to strike it, in 1993. I believe this article is truly noteworthy, not only as a real estate and facilities management story, but also as an historical document. 

I was also a frequent contributor to Chemical Business, at Schnell Publishing in New York. Because of my background, I was often assigned stories on finance and investor relations, including the one above, "Chemical Dividends: To Pay or Not to Pay." 

I very much enjoyed a multiyear association with France Magazine, a beautifully-designed publication for "friends of France," which came out of the French Embassy in Washington. I've included two stories from France in this Portfolio. This first one is a real estate story, "Miami Twice," about Marseille-based builder Groupe Constructa, which won numerous awards for its innovative shopping plaza, CocoWalk, in Coconut Grove, and was about to follow up this success with 1500 Ocean Drive, in South Beach, a condominium and retail complex designed by superstar architect Michael Graves.

One of the economics articles I'm most proud of is the lengthy and wonderfully-illustrated piece above, the lead story in its issue of National Wildlife, at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington. "How Much Is a Gray Wolf Worth?" was one of the first stories in a consumer magazine to explore the burgeoning new specialty of resource economics, which seeks to measure the financial impacts of various actions meant to improve the environment. I think this is a well-researched and politically balanced article, which I hope readers will learn something from, as well as enjoy.  

The next section of the Portfolio:

Human Resources and Miscellaneous Business 

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