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How Working From Home Affected Commercial Real Estate Values

The Horizons Tracker

The Covid pandemic had a stark impact on the commercial real estate market as lockdowns forced people to work from home in their millions. Obviously, the death of the commute has been oft-prophesized, with Peter Drucker famously suggesting that we would no longer need to go into a physical office all the way back in 1989.

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Lawrence Cunningham: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University Law School and Director of GW’s Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C-LEAF) in New York. Market" "What happens when Buffett dies or becomes incapacitated?" Bob''s blog entries "circle of competence principle": Stick to your knitting "Mr.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. They are key 100 Coaches members and faculty.

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The Dark Side of Efficient Markets

Harvard Business Review

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Think about how markets evolve.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually. What Did Peter Drucker Really Say?

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S.

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