Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 15, 2012

Currently, Debbie is a brand marketing and social media consultant to small businesses and nonprofits in California. People who sell cars or real estate focus completely on the sale. From a business perspective, the best marketing professionals are innovative, open-minded, adaptable, and enjoy working with all types of people.

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Marketing Real Estate B2C B2B 70

Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

At Sherwin-Williams , the paints and coatings giant, a museum-style tour of the company’s history graces the headquarters lobby, recognizing employees for their innovations and accomplishments through the decades. So, you see, corporate culture can be, and is, quite concrete. Now, as a talent leader, it’s up to you to get it underfoot. .

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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

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? I Think Not.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts.

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Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

based real estate firm to examine whether a mindfulness training program could influence a team’s creativity. Other firms are following suit to either develop their own mindfulness programs or hire a consulting firm to help integrate mindfulness into their cultures.

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Creativity Incubator Brainstorming How To 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Our second question was more technical: How does reverse innovation work with the $300 House? In rich countries we've seen all manner of "master-planned" real estate communities. The Urban Challenge.

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Real Estate Business Incubator Workshop Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They’ve tried launching a large-scale program to monetize the company’s real estate, introducing a new marketing campaign, creating a new information system and “big data” approach, consolidating their buying categories, downsizing functions, testing new store concepts…the list goes on.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries. This week, the share price of Trina Solar Ltd. the nation's third-biggest maker of solar panels, jumped to the highest level in five months even as that of LDK Solar Co.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 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.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

As the officers and men are not permitted to visit their wives and families, I ought not to see my esposita — as it might make the men feel that I consult my own comfort regardless of theirs.&# How times have changed! Still, there’s the example of great leaders for those who have “ears to hear&#.Ron I Think Not.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

It allowed employees – especially young parents — to become internal consultants for a time by offering flexible schedules. For these smart, innovative employers, the silver decades may yield gold. At Unilever, Leena Nair, now Group HR, started a program earlier in her career in India called Career By Choice.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

They behave, in other words, like innovators. All three were times of exceptional innovation and creativity, for our clients and us. 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. It ended up working perfectly."

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Innovation Committee Real Estate Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Those interested in leadership might consult the syllabus for David Gergen's leadership course (PDF) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government or the syllabus his colleague Ron Heifetz uses for his course on adaptive leadership (PDF). Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Those interested in leadership might consult the syllabus for David Gergen's leadership course (PDF) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government or the syllabus his colleague Ron Heifetz uses for his course on adaptive leadership (PDF). Richard Tedlow, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Leaders might want to say that they are blind to race or gender or sexual orientation, but that attitude can prevent them from seeing instances of ostracism, as well as the unique perspectives that employees can bring to problem-solving and innovation. “If Case study #1: Foster interactions.

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Team Diversity Real Estate Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Last week’s news that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban put $450K into the $750K seed round of consulting startup HourlyNerd should make traditional consultants nervous. business schools and select international schools to bid on consulting projects that have been posted by prospective clients, mostly small business owners.

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McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8