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Developing A Winning Strategy For Real Estate Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

For the ambitious entrepreneur looking for a great idea, have you ever considered real estate? From rental properties to flipping homes, there are many options you can explore in the real estate industry. When diving into an investment or startup, you need to be both knowledgeable and wise.

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Understanding Private Equity: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

This can cover situations such as growing a business (which requires ‘growth capital’ for expansion or development); financing operational changes such as restructuring to make the business more profitable; financing acquisitions of other companies; or delisting a public company in order to give it private status.

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Harvard Business Review

Research by Cornell University Professor Dr. Alan Hedge reinforces the connection of natural light and employee wellbeing. Dr. Hedge’s recent research study found optimization of natural light in an office significantly improves health and wellness among workers. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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The Key to Adaptable Companies Is Relentlessly Developing People

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

The four-story glass building designed by Norman Foster seamlessly integrates a long and diverse list of technical achievements — from the enormous solar panel array on the roof to hidden cable management mechanisms at the workstations — all according to Jobs’s uncompromising design standards. It is not a hedge.

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Facebook’s Unbundling Strategy Makes Perfect Sense

Harvard Business Review

It has implications that extend far beyond the company’s stated goal to design single-purpose apps that fit mobile usage and the bottleneck of screen mobile device real estate. Unbundling has a compelling strategic and competitive rationale for Facebook. But what of network effects? Not necessarily.