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How to Calculate ROI of Remote vs. In-Person Work? (How to Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. Managers and employees are telling you t hey’re way more productive. 4:20 Reaction: How do people (employees and managers) see this situation?

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In it, he describes  how real estate investor Sam Zell and his minions destroyed the culture of the Chicago Tribune and other great newspapers in its holding company. The example from the Trib is extreme in that it’s rare for management to codify bad behavior as official company policy.  What about you?

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Case Study: Should a Hotel Giant Eliminate Some Brands and Refocus?

Harvard Business Review

Like most of the big hoteliers, however, Otto owned few of those properties; instead it franchised and managed them, with the bulk of the real estate owned by independent companies that licensed Otto’s brands. It’s just too difficult to manage that many. “Too much here, Tank,” he said aloud.

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Case Study: Should You Rehire Someone Who Left for a Competitor?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Conrad’s was a real estate investor in Coconut Grove. “The managing directors in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and Brazil and Argentina and the others.

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Case Study: Can Nice Guys Finish First?

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Right after the wedding, she'd taken a job with a real estate powerhouse. She managed to say this with a lilt in her voice and a sparkle in her eye.

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Case Study: The Ex-CEO Contemplates a Coup

Harvard Business Review

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. My father would put more professional managers in key positions.