Category: AHI activities

What makes a good consultant? Part 1c, Rules of engagement

8 May, 2009 (09:49) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1b and the preceding Part 1a.]
 

Not entirely devoid of interest 
 

“You are engaged,” said I; “perhaps I interrupt you.”“Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one”–he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old hat–“but [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1b, Rules of engagement

7 May, 2009 (16:46) | AHI activities, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1a.]
 
“You know my methods. Apply them!”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1
 

Holmes worried facts as a dog worries a bone
 
For me as chronicler of the exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, there is never a shortage of material from which to draw; my challenges [...]

What makes a good consultant? Part 1a, Rules of engagement

6 May, 2009 (10:50) | AHI activities, Consulting, Essential posts, MEEs, Markets, Public-Private Partnerships, Theory, US News | No comments

 
“I think that I had better go, Holmes.” “Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.”
A Scandal in Bohemia

Whenever I could, I looked in on Holmes
 

In looking over my modest chronicles of the various housing-finance exploits of my friend Sherlock Holmes, the world’s foremost consulting housing finance detective, [...]

AHI: what we think: Part 2, MEEs are the driver

15 July, 2008 (09:36) | AHI activities, Gates, Global news, Innovations, Speculation | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post, expositing on the theory of change that AHI received a $1,000,000 grant to explore, began with housing as the catalyst for improving urban environments, especially in the global south.
 
Housing is the world’s biggest property asset class.  In developed nations, it’s most people’s biggest investment, source of retirement savings, [...]

AHI: what we think: Part 1, housing is the catalyst

14 July, 2008 (10:36) | AHI activities, Gates, Global news, Innovations, Speculation | No comments

Blog readers know that a while back, AHI received a $1,000,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a two-year research effort, with a modest goal:
 

 
Change the world’s understanding of what slums socioeconomically are, and therefore change how benefactor entities can help improve slums and cities in the global south.  Do so by [...]