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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Retail asset managers will offer a variety of products including mutual funds, index funds and specialized pools. Asset Management Business Model. Asset Management Fees.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

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. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). Conclusion.

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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

3 – Too long and not metrics-driven. Consultants, by nature, want to get to the beating heart of things immediately and they like to use metrics as their road maps. It’s just that metrics and metric-driven conclusions are what consultants live for. Give it some real estate on your resume.

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

Harvard Business

But despite the different timescale, the challenge for real estate executives is not unlike the one facing CIOs: to make sure a new investment will not quickly become obsolete. These responses to the rapid change of technology seem reasonable when one thinks about how most companies measure their real estate investments.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings.