Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments.

Recruiting 125

Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 125

MishTalk

MARCH 4, 2015

Hypocrisy of the Toronto real estate board is stunning. The board threatened brokers who list sales prices. Self-Serving Hypocrites Suppress Data Please consider Toronto Real Estate Board Demands Brokers Halt Online Sales Stats. The broker feels Canadians should have access to sales information online.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Sales Data Operations 28

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe. Real Estate & Facilities.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Kearney operates across 55 locations world wide. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries.

Oliver Wyman 107

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy& Strategy 107

Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. In simple terms, asset management firms are the ‘manufacturers’ of investment products (e.g., clients can purchase iShares on the RBC Wealth platform).

Banking 78

Banking Management Real Estate Insurance 78

MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2014

Sinking Sales Volumes , Prices Sales are down 9.4% Homes in real estate developments in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing, among other cities, will qualify, according to an advertisement on Taobao’s website. Incentives come in the form of a credit on Alibaba’s Taobao, an e-commerce platform similar to eBay.

Marketing 71

Marketing Real Estate Advertising Development 71

Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

While the business case for embracing technology is widely documented, retailers have historically shied away, given the high cost and operational complexity. Bringing Your Operations Online. Bringing efficiency to operations is table stakes for retailers. Consider integration, too. Optimize staffing.

Small Business 71

Small Business Retail Real Estate Operations 71

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

BCG’s new home, 10 Hudson Yards, is like a city within a city and is considered the largest real estate deal in US history (jaw drop!). Their functional areas are analytics, high-end information technology, BPO, healthcare, marketing & sales, media & communication, finance & risk, cyber security & financial services.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. The bad bank has 400,000 real estate assets but tens-of-thousands of the properties have no address. Clearly the pace of sales is very far below the business plan. With estimated operating costs of 1.7

Banking 75

Banking Analysis Trends Real Estate 75

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. What’s the real story?

Retail 70

Retail Sales Real Estate Data 70

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

Change Management 71

Change Management Data Marketing Management 71

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Other activists have expertise in development and commercial real estate.

Real Estate 71

Real Estate Construction Meeting Company 71

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To support Adobe’s analytical and data-driven culture, we worked closely with their real estate team, which collects and analyzes data about their workspaces, and got feedback from employees on the seven attributes above as a key part of planning process.

Exercises 129

Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 129

MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2013

Hedge funds, private-equity firms and real estate investment trusts have raised more than $18 billion to purchase more than 100,000 rental houses in the past two years. Such silliness explains why existing home sales are relatively robust compared to new home sales. The Malibu, California-based company, which raised $705.9

Real Estate 61

Real Estate Sales Groups Construction 61

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

In other words, they sold their real estate assets to institutional investors and private wealth funds, and they began to operate as essentially management companies focused on defining a brand proposition, marketing and generating sales.

Hotels 70

Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 70

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. They’ve also grown their sales 134 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 53 percent. They grew their sales 233 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 10 percent.

Education 92

Education Real Estate Research Company 92

Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Now even larger companies, such as Lopes, a major real estate company, list WhatsApp as one of the main ways to talk to consumers. In other words, it presents a great opportunity for businesses to provide premium sales experiences. Either set up a 24/7 operation for messaging or clearly state your operating hours.

Real Estate 70

Real Estate Apparel Video Small Business 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

How To 70

How To Real Estate Research System 70

Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Impact on Traditional Workspaces: Remote work has significant implications for traditional office spaces, commercial real estate, and urban planning. Having a remote work infrastructure in place enables organizations to continue operations and minimize downtime, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery to clients and customers.

Leadership 101

Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

Interviews 100

Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

Banking 12

Banking Industry Balance Sheet Retail 12

MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. That's the banks' problem."

Retail 28

Retail Cash Flow Real Estate Deloitte 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Real Estate. However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Eupnea Management Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Extreme as some of these external events are, they also almost always require drastic action from businesses and their leaders in order to adapt effectively and continue to develop their operations and grow. We were basically at that point and should have been, you know, transiting from being an idea to being an operational business.

Interviews 52

Interviews Insurance Insurance Culture 52

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Some of these adjustments are easily justifiable, such as adjusting the owner’s salary to market rate or if the seller owns the real estate and pays more than market rent. Adjustments , as in, “you can adjust some of our operations to make more profit.” Let’s look at the AAA of buy-sell deals.

Insurance 40

Insurance Insurance Cash Flow Real Estate 40

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

cut its profit forecast citing falling sales caused by lower farm income and grain prices. Many rent payments – which vary from a few thousand dollars for a tiny farm to millions for a major operation – are due on March 1, just weeks after the U.S. The tensions add to other signs the agricultural boom that the U.S.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Banking Sales Operations 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. The implications of smarter cities loom especially large for the real estate industry.

Company 114

Company Real Estate Government Transportation 114

MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Zell discussed a wide variety of topics from the Federal Reserve rate hike, the risk of a near-term recession, real estate, energy, and various foreign investment ideas. And it's, you know, it's a little bit like real estate. I mean we made a fortune because we bought real estate at a discount to replacement cost.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Energy Tools Government 28