The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Although an expanding high-tech sector may stimulate the demand for local goods and services, it can crowd out other tradable industries within the region, as it consumes human and financial capital,” the researchers explain. “Rising wages and real estate prices increase the cost of doing business.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Price Cost Hotels 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. The link between superstar firms, sectors, and cities is complex.

Industry 9

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 9

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 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Most executives, rightly, regard strategy creation and achieving operational effectiveness as two very different animals. Strategy, they believe, is about how to create value for customers; operational effectiveness is about how to do so at the lowest cost. In fact, that's how several disruptive business models have emerged.

Airlines 11

Airlines Real Estate Operations Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. 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.

COO 10

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase one (buy and sell), PE investors looked for the equivalent of a “fixer-upper house” — a dilapidated company in a good industry that could be purchased at a discount and, after the business equivalent of some fresh paint and new appliances, resold for a profit.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Transportation 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 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. Some have decades of experience in their industry. In other words, they are able to make a real difference. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2020

The cost of corporate real estate has long been an issue for those in the facilities management profession, but the costs associated with urban living is increasingly an issue for HR departments too. Attracting the best. The economics of work are just one of the factors behind this move, however.

Real Estate 97

Real Estate Environment Handbook Software 97

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. They can help ensure that industry participants, regulators, technology innovators, and customers are being kept safe, without trampling on people’s privacy and human rights. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2023

Since the Covid pandemic, many of these discussions revolve around remote work, and whether it has been productive, the gender issues involved when we work from home, and what it might do to corporate real estate. The latter found innovative ways to deal with the changing reality and adapt their managerial role accordingly.”

Management 52

Management Real Estate Operations Bond 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. What’s the real story? Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. Brick and mortar stores seem to be going the way of the yellow pages.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Each of these organizations looked to the small, exciting platforms startups in its industry to help broaden its products, capabilities, and customers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. The web traffic the stream generates has reshaped the journalism, gaming, and music industries, among others. Over 968 million people access it daily. Close to 1.5 billion people view it at least monthly.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

The Bitcoin protocol could simplify complex asset transfers, revolutionizing the services that support this industry. Similarly, real estate and financial instrument transactions could all be executed over Bitcoin. Much of identity management, including passports, still operates on a paper-based system.

Document 8

Document Real Estate Travel System 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.” 85 hours prior to the move, suggesting that the move helped the organization operate more quickly, resulting in additional cost-savings for the company (and hopefully happier employees).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

Technology 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

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

Human aggregation, friction, and the interaction of our minds are vital aspects of work, especially in the creative industries. 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.

Creativity 8

Creativity Technology Environment Banking 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

operating at around 30-40% of normal levels. Of course, the corporate real estate market is not the only sector that will be affected by a shift to remote working. Despite this urging from politicians, however, there is little sign that people are flocking back to the office. Shifting sands.

Reis 80

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 80

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

Leadership 420

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Doing Things as We Always Have.

Crisis 60

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Join the conversation. With Ranjay Gulati.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 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. and China are entering a trade battle over solar subsidies, which tells me it's a real market now.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. 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. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Cities are much more than the built environment of roads and real estate. The deterioration of Detroit began well before recent auto industry woes; its population plunge was confirmed by the latest Census. Yet, in most cities, businesses, schools, hospitals, and city services still operate in silos.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Class Education Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

These businesses have powerful disruptive potential because they can provide consulting at a fraction of the cost of traditional models, largely because they do not need to carry expensive fixed costs like recruiting, training, consultant “beach” time, and expensive real estate. Consulting Disruptive innovation'

McCallum 8

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The first of these institutions was the European Coal and Steel Community, established in 1952 to integrate the coal and steel industries of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. While the fighting over this religious real estate appears perpetual, Jerusalem can also be a solution.

Tourism 12

Tourism Committee Real Estate GDP 12