Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam). It's something that U.S.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

But smart leaders and organizations go broader. A real-estate search engine might actually “sell” wise decision making, through the process of making the largest transaction their customers will ever make. The starting point of most competitive analysis is a question: Who is your competition?

Levitt 13

Levitt Real Estate PR Video 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. 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. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance.

COO 12

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

To drive shareholder value and be a catalyst for economic recovery, our nation's largest companies must deploy their assets in a productive manner, either internally for innovation and organic growth, or externally for corporate venture capital investments, research partnerships, joint ventures and alliances, or acquisitions.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8