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chicago May be Losing Cachet, but Buffett Still Likes It
An October 2000 cover story in BusinessWeek magazine caused quite a stir. Chicago is a "great, livable city," the magazine declared, but it was losing its status as a global business center. That was five years before the takeover of the storied retailer Marshall Field by Macy's...
Tags: BusinessWeek, Chicago, Food & Beverage, Branding, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Marketing, Dan Mitchell
Blog posts 2008-04-28
Hartford Plaza: chicago, Illinois - chicago High-Rise Property Selects Hybrid Plant for Chiller Replacement
Hartford Office Plaza property at 100 and 150 South Wacker Drive in Chicago was recently the site of a chiller plant makeover that provides energy source flexibility, enhanced tenant comfort, reduced operating costs, and capacity to accommodate the unique HVAC requirements of modern tenants. The Building 150 chiller plant consisted...
Tags: American Standard Inc., tenant, Chicago, HVAC
Case studies
SCORE Mentors In chicago, IL Help Dramatic Diversity Market To The Right Audience
Brian Gregg attended Byron Stewart's adult acting class. Brian, a management consultant at the time, signed up for the class as a way to express his creativity. Byron was ending his term as an artistic director for a nonprofit agency and was focused on creating a theater department at the...
Tags: agency, knowledge, training, team, marketing, sales
Case studies
chicago Housing Authority Tailors Salesforce to Unique Public Agency Requirements
The Chicago Housing Authority, which is leading the City's program to rebuild and modernize the nation's third-largest public housing system, chose salesforce.com to enable case managers to track residents, support self-sufficiency and facilitate relocation. The Chicago Housing Authority retained Model Metrics LLC, a key salesforce.com implementation partner based in Chicago,...
Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Chicago, on-demand, agency
Case studies
University of Illinois at chicago: Cooling, Heating, and Power Plant
In the early 1990s, the University of Illinois at Chicago UIC considered adding power generation to its central heating and cooling facility as a way to meet the increasing energy demands of a growing university. Based on total costs, CHP on the University of Illinois campus provided approximately $1,931,518 or...
Tags: University of Illinois, Chicago, Combined Heat and Power, power generation
Case studies
chicago High-Rise Property Selects Hybrid Plant for Chiller Replacement
Hartford Office Plaza property at 100 and 150 South Wacker Drive in Chicago was recently the site of a chiller plant makeover that provides energy source flexibility, enhanced tenant comfort, reduced operating costs, and capacity to accommodate the unique HVAC requirements of modern tenants. The Building 150 chiller plant consisted...
Tags: American Standard Inc., tenant, HVAC
Case studies
Military Base Becomes Newest Community Along chicago's North Shore
Since the early 1980s, military bases across the country have been decommissioned, leaving communities in fear of the potential economic impact. After the base was decommissioned in 1993, four developers joined forces to create the first new community along Chicago's North Shore in more than 100 years. As part of...
Tags: Construction, Chicago, window
Case studies
Southwest Could Get Undercut in chicago
Two ultra-low fare carriers could undercut Southwest's dominance in the Chicago area as cheaper Gary, Indiana threatens both O'Hare and Midway. There has long been talk of a third airport in Chicago, one of the world's busiest flight hubs. For years, Chicago's mayor has tried to build a massive new complex...
Tags: Brett Snyder, Gary Indiana, O'Hare, Midway, Southwest
Blog posts 2008-03-14
Who's Your City: Top 10 Megaregions
These ten megaregions generate the bulk of America's economic output and stand to be the biggest areas for job and economic growth, according to Richard Florida, author of Who's Your City? ...
Tags: Richard Florida, Chicago, Boston, biotechnology, talent, America, commercial real estate, finance, job, New York, transportation, supply chain, logistics, banking, venture capital, manufacturing, brand, performance, computer, network
Articles 2008-03-19
MBA Boot Camp
View Available Dates and Locations This course offers the core curriculum of university level graduate business programs and includes targeted lectures and illuminating case studies. You will be introduced to the principles around which strategic business decisions revolve. You'll learn the major concepts and be introduced...
Tags: Marketing research, Tools & Techniques, Financial accounting, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Computer Associates International Inc., quantitative analysis, competitive strategy, Washington D.C., Sacramento, Chicago, decision analysis, San Jose, San Francis
Training 2008-01-01
Microsoft Project 2003
Master technology that makes managing your projects easier! Description: This course will give you the skills to become an expert in Microsoft Project 2003. You'll complete a series of exercises covering the critical skills you need to create and modify a project plan file that contains...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Computer Associates International Inc., Ottawa, Microsoft Project, Washington D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Toronto, project management, San Francisco, allocation, best practice, theory, Microsoft Corp., software
Training 2007-12-01
Introduction to Business Analysis
Understand the importance of the analyst. Description: In this introductory course, you'll delve into the role and responsibilities of the business analyst--the communication link between all business areas and a critical player in project success. Learn techniques for ensuring project success every step of the way-from...
Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Schaumburg, Computer Associates International Inc., business analyst, Washington D.C., San Jose, Chicago, Dallas, technique, risk assessment, data mining, business case, analysis, agreement
Training 2007-12-01
"How To Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume With Words"
A classic paper in 1963 by the legal sociologist Stewart Macaulay studied firms that did business in Wisconsin. He confirmed what everyone in business knows, that business normally depends on a state of trust, not on explicit contracts to be enforced in courts. One large manufacturer of cardboard boxes looked...
Tags: Manufacturing, manufacturer, agreement, industry
White papers 2007-09-18
Green Retailing Goes with Mainstream Format
Green business is taking on a new form -- a shopping mall. Chicago's Green Exchange, scheduled to open in early 2008, will be the country's first shopping center for environmentally conscious and socially responsible businesses. A recent BusinessWeek article by Jeffrey Gangemi reports on the nature and strategy behind the...
Tags: Andrew Hines, Green Exchange
Blog posts 2007-04-25
chicago Properties - Title Insurance Tips
If one plans to buy a Chicago property, the sooner one learn about title insurance, the better. For many first time Chicago real estate buyers, the first time they hear about title insurance at the closing of their Chicago property. This paper presents the basics of title insurance for protecting...
Tags: EzineArticles.com, title insurance, Chicago, real estate
White papers 2006-01-05
The Production of Popular Music as a Confidence Game: The Case of the chicago Blues
This article argues that the production of live music shares many formal properties with that of confidence games. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in some of Chicago's most popular blues clubs, the article examines these three components of live music production qua confidence game. It also briefly discusses how one...
Tags: Chicago, performance
White papers 2004-10-13
Why Are Put Options so Expensive?
This paper studies the "overpriced puts puzzle" - the finding that historical prices of the S&P 500 put options have been too high and incompatible with the canonical asset-pricing models. Simple trading strategies that involve selling at-the-money and out-of-the-money puts would have earned extraordinary profits. To investigate whether put returns...
Tags: Financial accounting, S&P 500, strategy
White papers 2004-08-26
Safe!: chicago's Safest And Most Improved Plants
This case study illustrates that how managers and employees team up to give Republic Windows & Doors the title of one of Chicago's safest and most improved plants. Republic created a new plant environment centered on skills training, empowerment, trust, and togetherness. This led to improved safety. By effectively spelling...
Tags: Pfingsten Publishing, Chicago, team, environment, game
Case studies 2003-09-01
CivicNet: Examining the Goals and Benefits of chicago's Comprehensive High-Speed Communications Initiative
In order to promote the continuing economic growth of Chicago and the surrounding area, CivicNet aims to initially improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the city agencies' telecommucations services. In addition, the plan encompasses extending the availability of high-quality voice, data, and video services to small, medium, and large businesses;...
Tags: BearingPoint Inc., Chicago, video service, telecommunications, benefit, video
White papers 2003-01-24
Technology: Helping the City Coordinate its Services
This webcast provides insight regarding the importance and usefulness of technology in our lives. Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, discusses how technology has transformed the way Chicago operates. According to him, technology has played a very important role in the automation of basic services in the city, like, roadway...
Tags: Northwestern University, Chicago, Webcast, manufacturing
Webcasts 2003-01-18
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