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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. One crucial measure of this success is adaptability.

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

Harvard Business Review

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on.

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The Dark Side of Efficient Markets

Harvard Business Review

In the natural evolution of markets, as markets become more efficient, they turn from being use-driven to expectations-driven — like equities, real estate, or derivatives based on both. Rising rents for a piece of real estate may be expected to rise forever. Second, expectations extend deep into the imagined future.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system.