Martha O'Mara, PhD, CRE
Martha O'Mara is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Corporate Portfolio Analytics. She is widely considered a leading authority on the integration of corporate real estate planning with business strategic planning. Her book, Strategy and Place: Managing Corporate Real Estate and Facilities for Competitive Advantage was published in 1999 by The Free Press and is the definitive source for aligning organizational and strategic objectives with long term corporate real estate portfolio planning.
Currently, Dr. O’Mara serves on the faculty of the Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate at Harvard University and is a member of the Alumni Advisory Board for the Real Estate Academic Initiative also at Harvard. As a Lecturer in Executive Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) from 2000-2004, Dr. O’Mara helped develop the school’s innovative senior management development programs for the real estate industry. From 1989 to 1998 she was a full-time Assistant Professor at Harvard in the Urban Planning and Design department of the GSD and taught real estate finance and development, location strategy, doctoral research methods and design studios on urban development.
Prior to Co-founding Corporate Portfolio Analytics, Dr. O'Mara consulted and developed executive education programs for a number of organizations including Bank of America, Fidelity, Hines, Equity Office Properties, Grubb & Ellis, and the GSA among others. She has published in the Journal of Applied Real Property Analysis, the Journal of Real Estate Research and The Journal of Corporate Real Estate. Dr. O’Mara frequently lectures at CoreNetGlobal events and other leading industry conferences such as the Industrial Asset Management Council and the International Real Estate Group. In addition, she has served as a judge for the CoreNetGlobal Innovators Award for the past ten years. In 2004, she was elected a Counselor of Real Estate, earning a CRE designation.
Martha O'Mara holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior jointly awarded by the Harvard Business School and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She also has an MA and an MBA from Harvard University, and earned a BA from the University of California, Irvine.