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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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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 Expanding Trend. Moving into Hipsturbia.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

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.

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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. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores. small businesses. But there is also reason for optimism.

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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. Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7

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