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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company. About the Author: A cultural anthropologist, Andrea Simon, Ph.D., is president of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC) out of New York.

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations. In the same spirit as Julian Simon’s call for human ingenuity to reduce natural resource constraints, capitalism could play a fundamental role in climate adaptation if firms anticipate that there will be a large market for the products they develop.

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How Beacons Are Changing the Shopping Experience

Harvard Business Review

Simon Malls. The giant of retail real estate is putting location-based technology into more than 200 of its shopping malls, targeting the complexes’ common areas. For beacon recognition, the mall owner is using its own Simon Malls app, which already contains mall information ranging from maps to dining options.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business Review

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” ” Estimates of climate risk in the trillions are unfortunately getting more common. And what is the risk of devaluation?

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. The economist Herbert Simon posited that in a society where many of our material needs have been satisfied, people’s attention becomes the limited resource. Over 968 million people access it daily.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

reauthorization law, envisions a $5 billion-plus industry of camera drones being used for all sorts of purposes from real estate advertising to crop dusting to environmental monitoring and police work." As the New York Times wrote in a December 25 editorial : "The drone go-ahead, signed in February by President Obama in the F.A.A.