Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

What do an inflated surgical bill, a fuming real-estate developer, and a dreaded performance appraisal have in common? One of us (Katie) recently put this to the test while dealing with a real estate transaction. All can be mitigated with one simple gesture: a request for advice.

Advice 11

Advice Real Estate Constraint Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

This is quite a different scenario with greater constraints on the presenter and fewer tools to engage the audience. When communicating from a seated position, success depends on your relationship with the audience and how well you can engage them within certain constraints. Ultimately, it comes down to being thoughtful and strategic.

Audience 13

Audience How To Constraint Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In other words, they sold their real estate assets to institutional investors and private wealth funds, and they began to operate as essentially management companies focused on defining a brand proposition, marketing and generating sales. How online marketplaces are changing the face of business.

Hotels 8

Hotels Disintermediation Real Estate Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations. In the same spirit as Julian Simon’s call for human ingenuity to reduce natural resource constraints, capitalism could play a fundamental role in climate adaptation if firms anticipate that there will be a large market for the products they develop.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. We watch as they work around institutional constraints and build a network of colleagues who are eager to help.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Because of the constraints imposed on real estate development by Beijing, the demand for steel, and scrap, is likely to flatten and even fall. In the short run, China could stop importing and substitute many of these products. China recycles 90% of its scrap — 15% of which is imported — to produce steel.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Next, it''s important to understand their time constraints. Browsing the Forbes 500 , she read about a billionaire real estate mogul who lived in her city. And then you can say the COO''s office recommended them, and they''re not going to blow you off.". Until I get a ''No, never call me again,'' this is in play," she says.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Offer modern, flexible workspaces that inspire people while reducing overhead and real estate costs. As employees increasingly expect to be able to work from anywhere, on any device, your organization must move beyond the constraints of fixed locations and standard PCs to enable freedom and flexibility in the way people work.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. In addition to these constraints on experimentation, there is a another cost to ICOs: Exposing Strategic Roadmap to Competition. Renee Comet/Getty Images.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

They support their low-cost way to play with an integrated system of capabilities, including: real estate acquisition; no frills store design; and superior supply chain management involving among others expert point-of-sale data analytics.

Succession 15

Succession Retail Merchandising Supply Chain 15

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. Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.".

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

The questions you ask of customers must be more profound and open-ended, with an intent not only to discover how your customers engage with your products or services but also to understand some of the broader parameters of the constraints they are facing in their own lives.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The building, called The Civic , sold out all of its units in less than 18 months, even going into 2008's massive real estate crash. How does innovation manage to flourish under such time and budget constraints? It ended up working perfectly." For one thing, as these examples demonstrate, scarcity forces focus.

Innovation 12

Innovation Committee Real Estate Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In fact, problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints. In the short three intervening decades, valuable real estate will continue to be built behind the seeming protection of the wall, increasing the risks to the city when the barriers are inevitably breached.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Such constraints would likely encourage less risk taking before a disaster. And should FEMA subsidize Donald Trump's Manhattan real estate portfolio? For a minute, imagine that there was no FEMA and each geographic location was on its own, forced to use private insurance and state-level funds to rebuild after disasters.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

This difference between buying real estate, for example, and ending wars, building coalitions, structuring global agreements, and balancing military and diplomatic leverage has serious implications for the kind of negotiator a president should be.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Politics Constraint Health Care 8