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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like?

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

In the course of my years partnering with web developer and SEO specialist Sagapixel, I’ve learned a lot about how to market my firm. Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia. They don’t teach you this in law school! Can You Create a Niche?

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Don''t become lax on cost as you begin to sense rising demand.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. billion, and consumers whom we have identified as bearers of some of the highest “cost of cash” in the world (see our HBR article: “The Countries that Would Profit the Most from a Cashless World” ).