Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Temporary employment has jumped 50% since the depths of the financial crisis. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. Economy Hiring Human resources' Something profoundly structural is going on.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

“I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950. 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.

MBO 8

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

There's much brouhaha about "green jobs" those that arise from new clean-tech companies, created to help solve the climate crisis. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. I'm all for this — we need this kind of innovation — but green jobs are hardly the economic cure-all they are often made out to be.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Cost Bottom-up Participative 8