Ignoring Employee Health Can Have a Huge Impact on the Bottom Line
Employers are faced with many tough bottom-line decisions every day. Because of healthcare reform, the health of employees and cost of that health has moved to the forefront. We all know that the...
View ArticleIn Search of Millennials
This post is another article about Millennials. Like Time Magazine‘s May feature, “The Me, Me, Me Generation” and countless other cover stories, it’s full of assertions and a few accusations. Unlike...
View ArticleA Quick Story About Irrational Exuberance
There is roughly 55m SF of office spec and construction nationally at a time when the vacancy rate has dipped to 15.2 percent. Seems like a lot until you consider past recessions. Robert Bach, Director...
View ArticleHave We Given Democracy a Bad Name?
I was struck recently by an interview conducted recently by McKinsey & Company with Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide Global CEO, Christopher Graves. Discussing India, Graves was opining on what...
View ArticleKeen for ’14
The nation’s CEOs are bullish about their prospects for the new year, according to annual PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of more than 1,300 chief executives, which was released on Wednesday. A full 39...
View ArticleThe Chinese Moto into Chicago
It’s a strange experience to attend a tech conference like I did last Thursday and have no one — not the audience or the speakers — mention the biggest tech story of the year. It’s a little like...
View ArticleBeatlemania is Back. Beatlemania Never Left.
“It was 20 years ago today..” Actually, more like 50 years plus a couple of days. February 9, 1964. The Beatles took to the Ed Sullivan stage, and music history was made. Getting on the Ed Sullivan...
View ArticleCMBS Poised for a Comeback
CMBS was a $230 billion industry prior to the recession. Today, we live in an era of lowered expectations where every victory needs celebrating as we get back into gear. Take Chicago, where lenders...
View ArticleMahima Narula on the E-Commerce Revolution
As more and more people shop online, industry experts say that e-Commerce has the potential to eclipse traditional retail shopping. And with the increasing number of mobile sales transactions, this...
View ArticleBranding Real Estate
We’ve all heard the term “branding” but for most of us it’s seemed like just another name for the familiar business of marketing. Some people think it’s the packaging around a product – the logos and...
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