Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. We think cities can do better.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” As Scott Birnbaum, vice president of Samsung, told HBR , “The most creative ideas aren’t going to come while sitting in front of your monitor.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. He’s worked at the US Commerce Department, First Bank System, and Norwest Banks; was CTO of a real estate software firm; and led Wells Fargo servicing technology through the default crisis.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Innovative companies such as WeWork provide offices “where and when we need them,” giving professionals the opportunity to be part of a curated network and to share intellectual and physical tools. As they strive to engineer creativity, coworking space providers are also experimenting with quantifying human interactions.

Creativity 8

Creativity Technology Environment Banking 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Doing Things as We Always Have.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. The benefits are diffuse, including economic growth, city competitiveness, more jobs for more people, and more efficient use of scarce resources such as energy (which leads to less pollution). Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

A real-estate search engine might actually “sell” wise decision making, through the process of making the largest transaction their customers will ever make. Innovations driven by obstacle-as-competition insight: In-app bar code scanner to make it easy to track packaged foods.

Levitt 14

Levitt Real Estate PR Video 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It has built impressive capabilities that include logistics, inventory processes, buying standards, real estate practices and labor models — most of which it created for itself. Their leaders are officers with titles like Chief Risk Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and Chief Growth Officer.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15