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Selling Suburbia to Millennials

Strategy Driven

Millennial homebuyers aren’t the traditional real estate clients. According to a recent trends report, “hipsturbia” is fast becoming the desired location for real estate hunters. The Commute Crisis. The Expanding Trend. Even smaller markets like Charlestown and Tempe, AZ are expanding their “hipsturbia” options.

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

Harvard Business Review

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. These developments, while promising, are not without risks. small businesses.

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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. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Body of Knowledge.

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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. But there is a question that hasn’t been asked: Is there a digital upside to this crisis? Long before the current crisis, we found that residents of Delhi spent 6 million hours and $1.5 Sounds bad, right?

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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. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. “I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950. . “I don’t think they’re missing people who are working; they’re just categorizing them using methods they developed in 1950.

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