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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. Even smaller markets like Charlestown and Tempe, AZ are expanding their “hipsturbia” options. The Commute Crisis.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. into multiple global markets.

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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. Banks remain relatively risk-averse amid the tepid recovery. 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. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. Rethink outsourcing.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. 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? Sounds bad, right?

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. Plus, it turned out there was a recession in the works.

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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

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. 85% of the time, planning and forethought will avert the crisis.

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