Dubai - Fahd Al-Rasheed: Building a New City from the Ground Up

During his Stanford GSB Global Speaker Series talk on Thursday, May 7, 2015, Group CEO & Managing Director of Emaar, The Economic City Fahd Al-Rasheed (MBA '05) shared the story of developing a brand new city from scratch in Saudi Arabia. "For the first time in global history, a project of this size was given to the private sector," said Al-Rasheed. He discussed the process of coming up with and executing on the city's master plan, and lessons learned around community engagement and education. Read more: http://stanford.io/1wjTl2u