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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

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. By investing in these durable improvements, real estate owners can lower their premiums because they have reduced the risk that their real estate assets face.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. percent to 102.9

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

These artificial neural networks link millions of data points from seemingly unrelated databases containing everything from social media posts to internet protocol addresses used on airport Wi-Fi networks to real estate holdings or tax returns, and identify patterns. Understanding and preparing for external risks.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

In his Theory of Moral Sentiments , Adam Smith argues that duty and sympathy are part of our very nature, and that because of our innate morality, we can live collaboratively in a just and harmonious society. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. We believe the answer is yes.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. Bert Ron Another great post Mike.Stonewall Jackson understood very well how “attitude reflects leadership&# and impacts the morale of subordinates. Great post.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

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. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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