Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2016

When it comes to preparing organizations for a complex, high-speed future, many people who work in those organizations, or in management science, talk about the imperative for “ continuous improvement ” in operations. How talent management is changing. We call them Deliberately Developmental Organizations or DDOs.

Development 28

Development Company Culture Real Estate 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. Most leaders have decades of experience focusing on assets like plants, real estate, inventory, and human capital.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. As Immelt has noted, GE’s transformation required having new talent throughout GE, not just in IT, plus new leadership styles and a new culture.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Talent System Tools 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field. The talent market was so tight that strong employees were often poached from small companies by bigger-name, more successful ones.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Study Real Estate 28

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

Exercises 30

Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 30

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

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In that same Wired piece: …what began with aesthetic judgments of the digital renderings—the Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic called the Ring a “retrograde cocoon”—has lately turned to social and cultural critiques. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate System Software Efficiency 28