Archive for Marisa Manley
A Victim of Wetlands Regulations
Marisa Manley’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Since 1968, James J. Wilson’s Interstate General Co., L.P., has been developing a 9,100-acre planned community in Maryland, called St. Charles. It is located about 20 miles from Washington, D.C., and some 33,000 people live there. Recently, the Washington Post reported, [...]
1Jul1997 | Marisa Manley | 2 comments | ContinuedWhy Laws Backfire
Ms. Manley is president of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd., Manhattan. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., and the Wall Street Journal. For thousands of years, laws everywhere have backfired. In ancient Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome, for instance, price controls promoted not fairness but famine. During the twentieth [...]
1Aug1996 | Marisa Manley | 1 comment | ContinuedHow Walter Turnbull Inspires Self-Help at the Boys Choir of Harlem
Marisa Manley is president of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd., Manhattan. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., and the Wall Street Journal. The Boys Choir of Harlem helps renew the American dream. The boys are poor. They’re menaced by gangs and tempted by drugs. Three-quarters come from broken homes. Reportedly over [...]
1Jun1996 | Marisa Manley | 0 comments | Continued-
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