Mahlon Apgar, IV
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(BCG). As a partner of BCG and McKinsey & Company
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, and founder of his own firm, he has served as consultant to many global corporations and to national government agencies in the US, UK, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, and other countries. President Bill Clinton
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appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment in 1998, with global responsibility for the Army's housing, real estate and facilities.http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/1999/990310ma.pdf
Education and Military Service
Apgar received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
in 1962, where he was a Choate Scholar and a Distinguished Military Graduate of Army ROTC; and an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
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in 1968, where he was executive editor of The MBA magazine. He also studied the British new towns program at Oxford University from 1965 to 1966, which led to a career-long interest in community development. In 1962, he was commissioned in the US Army and served as an intelligence officer in Germany
Germany
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until 1965.
Consulting career
Apgar began his real estate career with the visionary urbanist and developer, James W. RouseJames W. Rouse
James Wilson Rouse , founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist...
, and assisted in opening the new city of Columbia, Maryland
Columbia, Maryland
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in 1967. He joined McKinsey in 1968 and transferred to London in 1970, where he helped build a UK and European public sector practice in housing, urban development, and local government; wrote urban guidelines (The Sunderland Study: Tackling Urban Problems) for the UK government, and advised a wide range of firms on real estate strategy and other issues. In 1974, he began an intensive five-year engagement in Saudi Arabia, led planning for Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco
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's large-scale community development and infrastructure expansion, and was principal author of the blueprint for the Saudi Government's national urbanization strategy. His Harvard Business Review
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article, "Succeeding in Saudi Arabia," has guided generations of US and foreign executives in their business strategies for that unique market.
In 1980, he founded Apgar & Company, a strategic advisory firm specializing in transformation of large-scale corporate real estate
Corporate Real Estate
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and facilities portfolio management. During this period, he wrote a series of influential articles on business real estate. In 1997, he patented a corporate real estate evaluation system known as the Apgar Real Estate Score http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5680305/fulltext.html. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Apgar was a partner and director of BCG, where he established the Infrastructure and Real Estate practice. He became the firm’s Senior Advisor on Real Estate in 2007.
Affiliations, Publications, Awards
Apgar is a Counselor of Real Estate, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered SurveyorsRoyal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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, and a Governor of the Urban Land Institute
Urban Land Institute
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Foundation. He has taught courses at Yale
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, Oxford, Princeton University
Princeton University
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, and Harvard. He has edited two books, including New Perspectives on Community Development, authored more than 60 journal articles, including six in the Harvard Business Review, and in 2008 wrote a report entitled "The Promise of Public-Private Partnerships: Principles and Proposals for the Next President." Mr. Apgar received the Army's Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service, the first Chairman's Award of the President's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the James Felt Award for Creative Counseling http://www.cre.org/awards/felt.cfm and the William S. Ballard Award http://www.cre.org/newsroom/news_article.cfm?lid=821, both from the Counselors of Real Estate, and the Arthur A. May Award of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers.