Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

have tracked closely with the performance of the economy and labor market overall, showing a notable decline following the last recession,” said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder and co-author of The Talent Equation. “Net new business establishments in the U.S. New Jersey. 5,500 fewer business establishments in 2012 than 2009, down 2%.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Ed “Skip” McLaughlin is the founder of four businesses and is currently running Blue Sunsets LLC, a real estate and angel investment firm. He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. About the Authors. 500 company.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Magazine Entrepreneur Advertising 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What’s behind rising income inequality: the pay difference between janitors and CEOs, or the gap between how well different employers pay each position? The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. Income inequality in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

Real Estate 14

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

Would you like some real-world examples of this? Look no further than Zillow in real estate or Homeadvisor in the home services sector. You cannot outsource marketing, or it will put your company in a position to finance the organization that will one day put you out of business. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Offutt, the CEO, had named a time when they could meet. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. Sarah, an experienced real estate consultant, had always been happy to help. Finally , Sarah thought.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. I recently encountered an illustrative case of overclaiming that could translate easily across industries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. One guy says, “You’re CEO. You do CEO/chairman stuff. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

It's easier to meet Community Reinvestment Act targets with housing and real estate than with business loans. Few CEOs realize that their companies' "supplier diversity programs" might be self-defense exercises for an urbanized future. America's great foundations, with $600 billion to invest, invest it much as they always have.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 9

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. It all seemed so big and complex and out of control. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In addition to the productivity pay-off from lattice ways to work, companies have the potential to reduce real estate and energy costs, help decrease traffic and pollution, and improve business continuity in severe weather, a natural disaster or even a pandemic or terrorist attack.

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Productivity Products Real Estate Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

As an entrepreneur, angel investor, VC, philanthropist, and CEO with 40 years' experience, I cannot agree. 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.

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Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As CEO of the lease-to-own chain, he was eager to see how his 1,000th location was performing. consumer protection advocates had attacked the rent-to-own industry, claiming its total price — often 60% to 90% higher than traditional retailers — amounted to predatory financing of sales and caused undue hardship for customers.

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Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

A real-estate search engine might actually “sell” wise decision making, through the process of making the largest transaction their customers will ever make. That may be the journey from unhealthy to healthy living, or from being broke to being a good steward of their finances.

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Levitt Real Estate PR Video 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One next-generation example already available today is YieldStreet, which offers a wide variety of debt investments—including real estate, marine finance, and litigation finance–that have generated an internal rate of return in excess of 12.5% on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

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Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Bank executives first turned to risk experts in the 1980s to help their institutions survive the financial wreckage of the Latin American debt crisis , the commercial real estate crisis, and sky-high interest rates. CEOs and institutional investors also played a role.

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Banking Risk Management Crisis Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Starting Sigma was the culmination of my long-standing passion to create a vehicle to more efficiently connect buyers and sellers of commercial real estate. The first product I envisioned was a high-quality commercial real estate magazine listing properties for sale, lease, and sublease. (I About the Author. 500 company.

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Real Estate Magazine Outsourcing Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance. Interestingly, Republican directors think the compensation level of the CEO of their company is “too high.” banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

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