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Win Community Approval for New Business Construction

Harvard Business Review

Smart corporate real estate managers and property developers have discovered that winning local approval for their new, tax-paying, job-creating, profit-making projects is no longer possible without first building public support at the grassroots level. The project prevailed.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need? Keep me posted on how it works for you.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. Real estate had become so central to the Spanish economy that construction alone generated 14 percent of employment and 16 percent of national output in 2007. percent to 102.9 trillion dollars.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

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Why We Shouldn't Bank on Growth

Harvard Business Review

In May 2006, Facebook raised money at a $500-million valuation. 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. Take the steel industry.

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Midsized Firms Can Survive a Cash Crisis

Harvard Business Review

economy (especially the real estate market) fell off the end of the table. Retailers halted construction on new stores and shuttered underperforming ones. In 2006 and 2007, the partners earned big bonuses. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. Dennis Heath and John McNulty founded the Alameda, Calif.,

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I had an idea of constructing a certain statistical procedure. It seems sort of silly, but I’ve learned more in the last three or four years than the previous ten. Let’s do it.”.