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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. Moving into Hipsturbia. The Expanding Trend.

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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.

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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. 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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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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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

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. Firestone blamed Ford for unsafe vehicles.

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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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