Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In it, he describes  how real estate investor Sam Zell and his minions destroyed the culture of the Chicago Tribune and other great newspapers in its holding company. The example from the Trib is extreme in that it’s rare for management to codify bad behavior as official company policy.  What about you?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Crafting intentional impact (the kind that creates results AND brings people with you, happy that they follow you) is so key that it gets a full chapter (#5) of real estate in the book. You’ll find the 5-step framework offered below. And you need to be able to create intentional impact. Follow her on Twitter: @AneseCavanaugh.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. The following list contains eight representative examples of acquisitions that can be made without having to purchase the entire enterprise: .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

How do you help your team develop their creativity? 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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? Consider the example of a new drug for curing baldness. Our research is purely theoretical: We outline a model but don’t test it on real-world data. To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Midtown Atlanta is an example of the growing trend of companies relocating major research facilities to be near urban universities that provide mixed-use amenities, lively places, and a high density of firms. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. And just recently, NCR, one of the largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, EQ is positively correlated with leadership , job performance , job satisfaction , happiness , and well-being (both physical and emotional). Lower levels of creativity and innovation potential. There is a negative correlation between EQ and many of the traits that predispose individuals toward creativity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Today, for example, social media companies are expected to uncover and remove terrorist recruitment videos and messages almost instantly. Banks, for example, are halting financial crimes much more quickly and cheaply than they used to by using AI for automating processes and conducting multilayered “deep learning” analyses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It provided a differentiated offering that disrupted the industry at the time: affordable, build-it-yourself home furnishings sold in massive stores built on cheap, out-of-town real estate. IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

For example, the admired Brookings Institution recently purported to explain an apparent decades-long decline in American entrepreneurship. The implicit axiom here is that robust companies that have sustained and grown over the longer term are somehow less innovative. The supporting evidence?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

For example, in order to purchase a car from an individual seller, one has to engage a third party to transfer the title. Similarly, real estate and financial instrument transactions could all be executed over Bitcoin. Currently, the transfer of large assets requires significant time and resources. Identity management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. In other words, they are able to make a real difference. Some have decades of experience in their industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

And what about getting candid feedback for your own growth and development? For example, you can preface a discussion by saying, “I’m talking to you as your son right now, not your employee.” Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Outside developers are now welcome, but must apply, and must play by Facebook’s limiting technical rules in order to be served up by Internet.org’s delivery platform. Close to 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One of the most exciting areas of development is the marrying of mobile apps, location sensing technologies (e.g., For example, a retailer might ask for customer feedback on interactions with sales associates and then use the results to rate employee performance. Insight Center. The New Tools of Marketing. Sponsored by Percolate.

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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. These developments, while promising, are not without risks. Banks remain relatively risk-averse amid the tepid recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Using advocacy to improve demand generation.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. From my own experience with clients, there are three women I would like to highlight as examples of these trends – women succeeding despite moments of turmoil or tremendous changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. The drive for dematerialization will change job descriptions in R&D, product development, and procurement at the very least.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Bold strokes are decisions that can be made at the top, implemented pretty quickly by command — acquisitions, divestitures, real estate purchases, layoffs. In merger integration, for example, IT systems integration often takes the longest, sometimes years. In contrast, bad management hurts everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Distributed energy systems are basically comprised of small-scale energy-generating devices (the most common example being solar panels) that allow for electricity to be produced on-site and consumed immediately, without drawing from the local electrical grid.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For example, in France it is twice as likely to find a 49-person company as a 50-person company. Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. Still, there’s the example of great leaders for those who have “ears to hear&#.Ron The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders. How times have changed! Well laid out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. For example, the king started selling special dispensations that allowed richer merchants to flout the rules of the fair (the equivalent of Amazon charging sellers for the right to cheat their customers). They’re not.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. This is yet another example of niche consultants skewing the client in the wrong directions. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. Cialdini's classic on the core principals of persuasion is a sterling example of the cross application of psychological principles to business life. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

For example, during one of the competitions, we provided students with data on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART), which included information about demographics, real estate, weather, station specifics, and fares.

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