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. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Echanove and Srivastava also state that a $300 House "would have to be as standardized as possible to keep costs low.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So here are some suggestions, most of which by the way, happen to be essentially cost-free: Removing barriers to growth should be your number one priority. 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.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 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. What distinguishes it from lower cost Walmart or more convenient Amazon?

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

But few governments appear to have the money or the political will to foot the up-front costs to prevent or fight fragmentation. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Innovation in Cities.

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Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. I Think Not. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

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. And it’s working.

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Levitt Real Estate PR Video 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has built impressive capabilities that include logistics, inventory processes, buying standards, real estate practices and labor models — most of which it created for itself. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. index funds).

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

These businesses have powerful disruptive potential because they can provide consulting at a fraction of the cost of traditional models, largely because they do not need to carry expensive fixed costs like recruiting, training, consultant “beach” time, and expensive real estate. Consulting Disruptive innovation'

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McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8