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Project/Product managers

Seth Godin Blog

The product manager, on the other hand, makes decisions about features, scale and the final product. The product manager coordinates many inputs and ultimately makes critical marketing decisions, because they’re deciding what the product is. This is the architect, the movie director and the real estate developer.

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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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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business

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. Product improvements such as hurricane-resistant doors can nearly eliminate certain disaster risks and have relatively low installation costs.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

BCG in the Middle East has focused on the following industries and sectors: government, financial services, energy, industrial goods, telecommunications, real estate, healthcare and private equity. It is a global leader in the areas of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.

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Will Wall Street Be Able to Earn the Trust of Younger Investors?

Harvard Business

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. In financial services, there are signs that traditional products like mutual funds are beginning to wane. on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business

” “ He owns a big share of the company, and of course he wants to increase the production volume to raise the profitability and expand.” Property mortgage/mortgage of venture’s real estate ratio: a reflection of the use of real estate collateral for loans or credit. Risk-taking.

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