Harvard Business Review
MARCH 19, 2014
The real-estate market and sales of Saint Joseph statuettes tend to move in opposite directions, according to a Missouri-based religious-goods company queried by the Wall Street Journal. In 2013, statuette sales were down 10.6% from the previous year, a period in which the median U.S. existing-home sale price rose 11%.
Strategy Driven
MAY 16, 2014
Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. However, face-to-face meetings and negotiations are often critical to securing the financial backing startups need to grow. About the Author.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2014
Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. The combined global workforces of Groupon , Facebook , LinkedIn , Zynga , Yelp , Pandora , and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated. Unfortunately, the odds there are only slightly better.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2015
in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% In fact, the island’s growth has been below the global average since 2009, with the gap widening since 2012. The relatively cheap national currencies would provide a boost to exports, real estate, manufacturing, agriculture (for instance, olive oil production), and services such as tourism.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2013
The only way you can avoid losing money on your investment is for a greater fool to come along — in the case of real estate, a greater fool backed by an even-greater-fool lender — and take the asset off your hands. Bitcoins have no intrinsic value. They lay claim to no stream of future earnings.
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