The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The paper was the output of a series of extended interviews undertaken with senior managers from sectors such as telecoms, entertainment, real estate and banking, and establishes a series of guiding principles to help companies act responsibly in the digital economy.

Technology 52

Technology Real Estate Ethics Banking 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

Providing these things could help to boost morale in the office and encourage productivity. You may also want to make the break-room bigger to accommodate a larger team or introduce new perks like a ping-pong or pool table they can enjoy on their lunch hour. Most offices are decorated in mundane, boring color-schemes.

FOB 66

FOB Environment Morale Brand 66

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. 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.

Insurance 10

Insurance Real Estate Industry Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2018

Our research was built on moral cleansing theory , which says that people seek to balance their moral and immoral actions and maintain their moral self-image around a desired equilibrium point. For example, a 2014 study found that people who made an unethical decision were more likely to donate to charity.

Morale 11

Morale Construction Real Estate Sample 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis. Because it takes time to repay loans, the economy runs the risk that short-term savers may panic and demand withdrawals en masse—when real estate prices fall 30%, for example.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis. Because it takes time to repay loans, the economy runs the risk that short-term savers may panic and demand withdrawals en masse—when real estate prices fall 30%, for example.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Short-term Banking Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In their hit book Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner posit that real estate agents don't have the incentive to push for the highest sales price for homeowners. Like real estate agents, most sales people are paid straight commission on revenue. First, morale increased. of the selling price ($4,500). "If

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Levitt Incentives Price 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Our own building in Boston’s financial district was recently bought by a West Coast real estate firm that has been gobbling up properties in the Northeast at San Francisco prices. As a small company CEO, I pay a lot of attention to ways we can save money but also maintain the same level of service and employee morale.

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Morale Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

One of those banks, Anglo-Irish Bank, lent 67 billion euros to the non-financial sector (real estate) in 2007 alone. Real estate had become so central to the Spanish economy that construction alone generated 14 percent of employment and 16 percent of national output in 2007. In Spain, really only the scale is different.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Over 968 million people access it daily. Close to 1.5 billion people view it at least monthly. The web traffic the stream generates has reshaped the journalism, gaming, and music industries, among others.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

This is especially true in large cities, where premium real estate often means that parks are pushed out and buildings are pushed up, skyward, creating canyons of concrete and glass. But at least we have that square of grass. For many workers, any green space is hard to come by.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Bottom-up Sports Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” Another study demonstrated that the noise resulting from open office designs is a huge drain on employee morale. So which is it? Or, more practically, how can companies identify the right amount of connectedness required for peak employee performance? At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate real estate,” Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon may or may not have told Herbert Hoover in the early years of the Great Depression. “It Within the economic mainstream, there is some sympathy for the idea that crisis interventions can create “moral hazard” by bailing out the irresponsible.

Crisis 8

Crisis Real Estate Banking Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

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.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Most of this steel is being used as an input into infrastructure and real estate construction. By having more realistic expectations, he would likely have avoided the negative morale shock that has been weighing on his sense of career satisfaction lately. Take the steel industry.

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

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. We believe the answer is yes. In fact, this sort of thinking is something of a return to the norm.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Additionally, this change can positively affect employee morale and productivity, as well as company efficiency and profitability. For most, real estate is the second-largest expense. So here's what you need to do: Stop working in the office. Offices and office hours once made good sense. What about my bottom line?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Cost Bottom-up Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

What does it mean when family and company funds are parked in American, Canadian, and British real estate? Finally, a leader needs to have a moral message to communicate to the world. What does it mean when a country’s leading citizens send their wealth and children abroad ?

Globalization 8

Globalization Short-term Education Real Estate 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If your attitude is impeding your relationships, your talent, or your health, it might be time to consider making some changes…If you have any great stories about how attitudes impact leadership and morale please share them in the comments section below. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] William Powell So nice to see this being addressed.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

It is your moral compass to LeaderShape at every level. This will fuel others to also want to win in their task to also achieve the experience of climbing their own mountain regardless of the challenging real?estate estate that lies ahead. Communication is critical when executing your mission as the end game. Never give?in.

CEO 331

CEO Succession Tips How To 331

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

As speculators in Hong Kong real estate, they were feeling the pinch of lower dividends and were worried about defaulting. A coup could be devastating to our reputation with analysts and outside investors, not to mention the morale of nonfamily executives, who might question whether they have a future at the company.".

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. This causes loss of employee morale and, as a result, company productivity. Sadly, the criteria for retail stores opening is the availability of property, not marketplace studies and strategies.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Residential real estate. My analysis: Price and location are the deciding factors in real estate. Morale is low or uneven. My analysis: To facilitate enhancement, focus upon quality time with the family, hobbies, reading, exercise, gardening and entertaining guests.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

It could help your company save money on real estate, building maintenance, and office infrastructure. Outdated beliefs about “face-time” and personal biases can influence morale and effectiveness of the telecommuting policy. Not setting up telecommuters for success.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Carol* had been working at a real estate firm in Minneapolis for a year, attending nearly every meeting but rarely speaking up. Not their real names. Managing people Morale Organizational culture' Don’t: Gloss over differences — people want their unique contributions to be valued. Case study #1: Foster interactions.

Team 8

Team Diversity Real Estate Case Study 8

The Practical Leader

MAY 27, 2020

Many managers underestimate the big impact on engagement and morale when contributions are noticed and valued. Despite all their pious declarations about the importance of people, leadership, and values, far too many managers treat people in their organizations like numbers on a balance sheet, inventory, real estate, or equipment.

Human Capital 112

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Leadership 112

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Her simple sentences sketch a sense of uncertainty, moral ambiguity, and heartbreak — feelings I certainly wouldn't want to dwell on in "real" life, but emotions I'm better off for having taken the time to consider. But nourishing empathy doesn't require such grimness. Full disclosure: my husband is the author ).

Emotional Intelligence 20

Emotional Intelligence Real Estate Hedge Bottom-up 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Bank executives first turned to risk experts in the 1980s to help their institutions survive the financial wreckage of the Latin American debt crisis , the commercial real estate crisis, and sky-high interest rates. But not if you look at the history of the risk management profession.

Banking 8

Banking Risk Management Crisis Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

It dawned on me on a recent visit to the University of Pennsylvania’s bookstore, where an alumnus’s book rested between newer releases on the prime real estate of the best-seller table: Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal. The author — or, more precisely, the protagonist — stared proudly from the cover.

Leadership 8

Leadership Real Estate Case Study Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Its implicit goal is to be the moral equivalent of equity capital. And it wants to turn equity capital into the moral equivalent of debt — it should earn a fixed return on its investment and nothing more. And increasingly, this talent is aimed at taking all the spoils. It wants to capture all of the upside.

Real Estate 10

Real Estate Senge Bond Price 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Put bluntly, moral hazard arises as more economic activity is likely to locate in harm's way along the pretty coast. And should FEMA subsidize Donald Trump's Manhattan real estate portfolio? There are surely unintended consequences that come with such implicit insurance. But, again, imagine life without FEMA.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9