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Working From Home Passes Property Costs Onto Workers

The Horizons Tracker

Most of the time these discussions have focused on the enjoyment employees have had from working at home, but research from Harvard reminds us that for many, it has imposed a clear financial cost that should be considered. Cost of living.

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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. Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. Insight Center.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” This resulted in an estimated cost savings of $520,000 per year in employee time and increased collaboration within teams. 77 hours compared to.85

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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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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

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. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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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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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

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. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon?

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