Real estate industry

Activists are a source of potential value, albeit a risky one.

We like seeing people, even if it’s inefficient.

The newly appointed CEO of Highstreet Properties has doubts about several members of the top team she has inherited. She's trying to drive a turnaround,...

Can an auto rental company fully integrate its car-sharing start-up without losing customers?

Getting the right people on board—and then all enthusiastically pulling in the right direction—has bedeviled organizations since the time of wooden ships, when the most popular form of motivation left lash marks. Today’s corporate helmsmen may be more enlightened, but they still face the same challenge. How can a company transform its frontline crew into […]

A new study found that in the three years after regulations were enacted, residential permit applications fell by an average of 10% in 15 U.S. cities.

Today's consumers crave variety. A new approach to providing luxury gives the superaffluent access to a range of big-ticket items.

More than $1 trillion in loans will come due over the next two years. Here's how companies can protect themselves.

In this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing...

What stands between you and the yes you want? According to negotiation experts David Lax and James Sebenius, executives face obstacles in three common...

Real estate escapes the thoughtful attention of most senior managers. It often falls within the realm of their responsibilities, but many do not appreciate...

An office lease can create financial difficulty if a tenant ignores provisions that landlords can use to gain extra income. The author points out some...

Photography: Stuart Isett The Idea: When the car rental company acquired Alamo and National, rather than execute a “takeover,” it moved slowly and sought to learn from its new brands. In 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car was marking its 50th anniversary. We had much to celebrate. With more than $9 billion in global revenue, […]

In this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing...

A combination of forces is making it harder than ever for companies to increase their revenues. But there is a way out of the trap—and it’s closer at hand than you might think.

The attributes metros must have to thrive in the digital economy.

For more than two years, Americans have heard distant rumors of unthinkable land price escalation going on in Japan. News reports indicate that in 1988, Japan’s theoretical land value surpassed by four times that of all land in the United States, a country nearly 25 times larger than Japan. Another real estate bulletin: the calculated […]

By better pricing risk, it can change our behavior.

Senior managers at large companies may think that occupancy costs are too insignificant to worry about, too technical to analyze, and too fixed to control....

A real estate developer considers whether to push forward with an office complex in the midst of Covid-19.