Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Legendary bosses like Bill Sanders in real estate, Julian Robertson in hedge funds, and Bill Walsh in professional football all communicated visions that entranced employees and left them hell-bent on success. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. ’” Focus on feedback.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Film Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. Not being able to provide a glowing review. Not being able to provide a glowing review. In fact, there are three ways out — three excuses that are perfectly suitable. They include: 1.

Reference 8

Reference Letter Real Estate Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. Thus, the asset managers are more comfortable with hedge funds, real estate holdings, and trading strategies than in market opportunities in education.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

He suggests participating in the standard review process but always supplementing it with outside evaluations to ensure that you learn and grow on the job. “Ask for 360 reviews or employ a coach,” he says. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” 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.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

will not be legalized until 2013). banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. More than 80% of campaigns in this category have raised more than $25,000. Sure, this amount pales in comparison to the $282 billion that U.S.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

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. There is a possible consolation prize: perhaps these kids can parlay their programming skill into jobs at Facebook or Google. since 2000.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. High growth firms are more likely to be in food services, real estate, construction, commerce, logistics and manufacturing than in ICT and life sciences. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.” President Barack Obama , August 17, 2010.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Incubator Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Take, for example, Jerry Buss (1933-2013), the longtime LA Lakers owner who rose from an impoverished Depression-era childhood to the Basketball Hall of Fame and ultimately transformed the sport of basketball. Buss launched his career in real estate with $1,000 in 1959—a venture that proved lucrative.

Innovation 8

Innovation Sports Real Estate Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. For example, the wealth effect from rising equity and real estate prices might make premium product segments more attractive in the coming years. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

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. The remaining was invested in business, stocks, real estate, jewelry, or “benami” assets, which are bought in someone else’s name.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. The actual outcome for Cisco turned out to be a 156% increase in net income from fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2013. Yet neither has collapsed. That is, it was selling at a price that no plausible growth scenario could justify.

Price 8

Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7 “The household survey is really good,” continues King.

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. We wanted to take a deeper look at some of the more abstract aspects of workplace design that can impact employee performance.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. Counsel on Call does e-discovery, contract review and abstraction, and other managed services , Raymond Law Group specializes in “price-sensitive commodity (litigation) work”).

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% The relatively cheap national currencies would provide a boost to exports, real estate, manufacturing, agriculture (for instance, olive oil production), and services such as tourism. in 2012; 5.4% Unemployment in Cyprus touched 16% last year, with 35.5% of its youth without jobs.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

The only way you can avoid losing money on your investment is for a greater fool to come along — in the case of real estate, a greater fool backed by an even-greater-fool lender — and take the asset off your hands. Bitcoins have no intrinsic value. They lay claim to no stream of future earnings.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013. Dave McClure’s 500 Startups recently invested in a local real estate portal.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. This product of the debt limit battle of 2011 set up a bipartisan "super committee" of legislators charged with coming up with a deal to the reduce the deficit, with $100 billion or so in Gramm-Rudman-style sequestration to follow in 2013 if the super committee failed (which it of course did).

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8