Greer takes Carlisle into BlackBerry era

Feb. 17—It's not often a student writes his graduate school thesis on a company and then becomes its owner. But in 2003 at Columbia University, Matthew Greer penned a 67-page dissertation on affordable housing builder Carlisle Development Group. Late last year Greer — at age 29 — signed the papers to buy the Coconut Grove company from founder Lloyd Boggio. The acquisition, for ...