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Working From Home Passes Property Costs Onto Workers

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, they found that between 2013 and 2017, people who worked from home full-time were typically spending 7% more of their monthly income on housing than their peers who were commuting to the office each day. The paper highlights how for people who are working from home full-time, there are costs associated that often go unexplored.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Of course, we all want to make good decisions, and it makes for an appealing can-do story to identify the job you want and land it.

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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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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

In a nutshell, the credit hour, the seat in the lecture hall, the tenured professor with a two or three course load, the four-year tuition, and the two-year professional degree will all be up for grabs in the next 20 years. This summer, a well-produced documentary, Ivory Tower , will likely sharpen the public discussion.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. For instance, real estate site Zillow has 812 employees, and travel site Kayak has only 205. In introductory economics courses in college, kids learn about “opportunity costs” and the “time value of money.”