Harvard Business

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. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets. Better Data Can Help Insurers More Accurately Price Climate Risk.

Insurance 129

Insurance Insurance Real Estate Industry 129

Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2014

where I worked for IMG (international marketing group) at the Winter Olympics. I managed a group of 17 brand ambassadors executing an “in-field” activation/marketing campaign for an IMG client, Wrigley Canada (chewing gum). A friend of mine was working for PwC in pre/post M&A integration management consulting at the time.

Consulting 204

Consulting Interviews Recruitment Recruiting 204

Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Talk with other consultants, do a web search on typical management consulting rates in your city or state, and/or try converting your employee salary to an hourly rate. Also, the larger the firm, the more overhead the billing rate needs to cover such as partner salaries and bonuses, real estate, advertising, and training.

Consulting 236

Consulting Real Estate Policies Operations 236

Consultant Ninja

JULY 26, 2011

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. In real terms, the National index is back to Q4 1999 levels, the Composite 20 index is back to August 2000, and the CoreLogic index back to March 2000. Management Consulting.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Real Estate Consulting Airlines 100

Consultant Ninja

APRIL 1, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Im not sure theres a structural shift in the consulting market. If anything management consulting is set for a new growth phase. Management Consulting.

Industry 100

Industry Oliver Wyman Consulting Management 100

Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

The biggest stressor for self-employed management consultants is business development: how to cultivate meaningful regular work. First, consultants are good at helping clients solve problems but usually aren’t trained in sales or marketing. It’s vexing for a variety of reasons.

Development 199

Development Consulting Real Estate Sports 199

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. Academics may not have helped us.

Change Management 71

Change Management Data Marketing Management 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Second, Uber and Netflix appealed to a younger superconsumer before they entered the category, which caught the market leaders flat-footed. Higher-fee, actively managed funds lost $500 billion in assets since 2015, with much of it flowing to much lower cost passive funds (e.g. index funds).

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Finance Survey Financial 128

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. Management Consulting.

Balance Sheet 100

Balance Sheet Marketing Banking Consulting 100

MishTalk

APRIL 25, 2014

The Australia Macro Business Blog notes Tier 1 Chinese Cities Discounting Property Prices and volumes are falling in Beijing and real estate agents are started to drum up sales by delisting homes listed at high prices. Online Prices Falling Everywhere; Real Estate Agents Cut Prices 30% ( ?????????

Real Estate 73

Real Estate Sales Survey Government 73

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

of India’s real estate market. real estate transactions has slumped in India as developers have refused to offer discounts for fear of starting a market rout. “If co-founder and managing partner of the Xander Group, a large. international real estate investment firm started in 2005. “If

Real Estate 78

Real Estate Journal Construction Marketing 78

MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

You can’t predict how the bursting of a Chinese real estate bubble plays out because it plays out in very small steps,” said Joel H. Rothstein, a partner in the Beijing office of the Paul Hastings law firm who specializes in Asian real estate. Here we are again, in another slowdown.

Real Estate 76

Real Estate Banking Construction Cash Flow 76

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation.

Real Estate 133

Real Estate Case Interview Deloitte Leadership 133

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk).

Consulting 135

Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

MishTalk

OCTOBER 20, 2013

But real estate data shows the practice is on the upswing — among million-dollar homes. For the market as a whole, flips of single family homes fell 13% in the third quarter, according to new research from RealtyTrac, with investors earning a gross profit of nearly $55,000 on each property. What’s behind these quick turnarounds?

Real Estate 72

Real Estate Turnaround Fashion Banking 72

MishTalk

JULY 9, 2014

Real estate is well back in bubble territory in some places, notably California. Henry Nunez, a real estate agent in Arcadia, California, met with so many homebuyers from China that he bought a Mandarin-English translation app for his phone. Bloomberg reports Chinese Cash-Bearing Buyers Drive U.S. Foreign Sales Jump.

Real Estate 78

Real Estate Construction Survey Interviews 78

MishTalk

AUGUST 9, 2013

Spain''s exposure to Portuguese sovereign debt and unrealized losses on real estate loans are two reasons a collapse in inevitable. Spanish bank stress tests in 2012 suggested that the capital hole was more manageable than widely feared, but those tests looked only at the domestic lending books; foreign assets were excluded.

Banking 76

Banking System Real Estate Government 76

MishTalk

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Market-Watch notes All-Cash Home Sales Reach New High. But real-estate experts say this increase may not be a good sign for the health of the housing market, which may also be impacted by the Federal Reserve’s decision to pull back on its bond-buying program. The cities [states?]

Sales 73

Sales Real Estate Data Report 73

MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the latest sign of Chinese developers’ desperation to unload inventory into a weak property market, China Vanke Co is offering discounts of up to $325,000 to homebuyers who shop on Alibaba’s Taobao, an e-commerce platform. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

Marketing 67

Marketing Real Estate Advertising Development 67

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

Real Estate 135

Real Estate Engineering Transportation Industry 135

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

Transportation 134

Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 134

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The market is still talking recovery, despite the US this year being barely able to muster 1.5 The Federal Open Market Committee''s fixed income put issued by the Fed''s recent non-tapering act has changed the relative value of fixed income over equities. The Morning After; Price Discovery is Zero; PUT on the Bond Market?

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Banking Advertising Marketing 66

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

BearingPoint Managing Partner: Peter Mockler. This consulting business unit focused on both technology and management. Shortly after going public, the new KPMG Consulting, LLC management announced their intentions of some aggressive international acquisitions funded by their new IPO. Real Estate & Facilities.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

MishTalk

JANUARY 17, 2014

For example, The Globe and Mail reports Bank CEOs ‘should be worried’ about real estate. Ed Clark, Toronto-Dominion Bank’s outspoken chief executive officer, is playing the contrarian card one more time, publicly arguing that he and his fellow bank CEOs should be cautious about the country’s heated real estate market.

Real Estate 71

Real Estate Insurance Insurance Banking 71

MishTalk

JUNE 13, 2014

China bulls point out that that home prices in China are based on fundamentals and 30% don payments are proof there is no real estate bubble. Poly Real Estate Group Co. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

Real Estate 72

Real Estate Banking Government Sales 72

MishTalk

MARCH 4, 2015

Hypocrisy of the Toronto real estate board is stunning. Self-Serving Hypocrites Suppress Data Please consider Toronto Real Estate Board Demands Brokers Halt Online Sales Stats. Late last night, real estate broker Fraser Beach posted an online alert he called “bad news.” Their excuse is "privacy". "

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Sales Data Operations 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

How To 126

How To Real Estate Case Interview System 126

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). PwC’s mothership manages a network of member firms with 83 offices across the US.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

MishTalk

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Ibex is the name of the Spanish stock market exchange. Construction and real estate had a 10% improvement. Despite this improvement, the data shows that the construction sector and real estate remains the one with the greatest delay in settlement of bills. Via translation from La Vanguardia. <

Real Estate 57

Real Estate Company Construction Finance 57

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Recruiting 125

Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 125

MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

In spite of this decline, residential real estate sales have remained strong due at least in part to investor activity and the fact that cash sales account for almost half of all transactions. For further discussion of sentiment and risk, please see Framework for Understanding Market Tops and Bottoms.

Real Estate 70

Real Estate Sales Trends Data 70

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

a digital solutions agency that acts as a full-scale marketing department for companies in need of an entire or partial marketing team. His past professional experience includes real estate, business banking, and retail management. Fernando Clemente is the owner/President of Mule Media Inc.,

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Retail Banking Media 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This is a familiar scene for companies building mines, pipelines, oil fields, and, more recently, even renewable energy and large real estate projects. ” Building and sustaining local stakeholder support for a major investment is the new frontier of successful management and risk assessment.

Company 112

Company Energy Real Estate Resources 112

MishTalk

JULY 9, 2014

Much of this credit may be tied up in the real estate market. Real estate speculators can obtain capital through credit guarantee firms. Legitimate companies in need of financing may also have borrowed, such as glass or furniture companies strapped for cash due to the slowdown in the real estate market.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Banking Report Company 65

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Looked at from the acquirer’s point of view, the logic of the Amazon–Whole Foods merger depends on whether Amazon can dominate groceries, can use Whole Foods real estate to deliver or offer goods of all sorts, or perhaps can add some real profits to the bottom line. Can Alexa sell Whole Foods’s inventory?

Real Estate 126

Real Estate Wireless Retail Industry 126

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Draghi confirmed the asset purchases would " include the real estate, the RMBS, real estate ABS. It would also include a fairly wide range of ABS containing loans to the real economy," but only "the senior tranches, and the mezzanine tranches only if there is a guarantee. "

Balance Sheet 73

Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Policies 73

MishTalk

JUNE 11, 2014

Buyers have historically paid about 15 percent more for a new home than for an existing one, a premium that''s reached 40 percent today, according to the real estate data firm Zillow. Meanwhile, in the other 99 percent of the market, home sales have fallen 7.6 An average new home costs about six times the median U.S.

Sales 77

Sales Real Estate Construction Report 77