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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. However, face-to-face meetings and negotiations are often critical to securing the financial backing startups need to grow. About the Author.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

Strategy Driven

With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. Cara Wick writes about American financial and political history at www.bankersnotes.com. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Seidman’s concerns were warranted. About the Author. References.

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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. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.”

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Three Ways to Say No to a Reference Request

Harvard Business Review

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. Christopher listened politely, vacillating between surprise and schadenfrude, racking his brain for a way out of a seemingly no-win situation. How should Christopher respond? Could he say no, and tell Theo off?

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Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment

Harvard Business Review

Did India just pull off a monetary and political miracle? The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Consider the sequence of events in its demonetization saga.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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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. He predicts that Sears will be a big loser.

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