Building Personal Strength
MAY 30, 2010
Until 2004, that is, when we suffered a direct hit from Category 2 Hurricane Frances. The heated-up real estate bubble seemed ready to burst at any time. Before my wife and I moved to the Texas Hill Country, we lived in Vero Beach, Florida, a small, quiet Atlantic-side barrier island community far from the big city.
Mark Sanborn
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
I still choose all of our real estate. One reason I do the real estate is that it gives me more time in the field with people.”. For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. He prefers to get see things first hand. “I
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Leading Blog
APRIL 16, 2021
But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2012
In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 Most of this steel is being used as an input into infrastructure and real estate construction. Consider the value of Facebook as both a private and public company, as chronicled recently by the Wall Street Journal.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2014
economy (especially the real estate market) fell off the end of the table. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 30, 2015
When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. I didn’t start my business: my blog did. I knew I wasn’t going to pursue a traditional academic career, but I wasn’t sure what else a Ph.D. had prepared me for.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2015
Cyprus’ growth was higher between 1980 and 2004, before it joined the Eurozone, than between 2004 and 2014, and it has been particularly low since 2008, when it adopted the Euro. In fact, Cyprus and Greece probably don’t need to be part of the Eurozone to grow.
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