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Commercial Office Space: Tests of a Real Options Model With Competitive Interactions

This paper tests a real options model with competitive interactions using an extensive commercial real estate data base. The competitive nature of the local real estate market as proxied by the market's Herfindahl ratio is found to have a significant effect on building starts: larger values of the Herfindahl ratio,...

Tags: Start, Microsoft Office, Commercial Real Estate, Ratio, University Of California, Real Estate, Financial Services, Business Operations

White papers 2003-02-01

Working With People: How To Create A Company Of Hearts And Minds

From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that if one is starting a business, a project or a family then one starts a company of people. When one gets a bunch of people working towards a common goal then one starts a company. Attracting the company of other people is the...

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White papers 2003-01-01

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Dave & Buster's Sets Date to Report Fiscal 2008 First Quarter Results

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Dave & Buster's Sets Date to Report Fiscal 2008 First Quarter ResultsC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dave & Buster's, an operator of high volume entertainment/dining complexes, announced that it plans to report financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter...

Articles 2009-06-08

Hook & Ladder Brewing Touts Growth

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Hook & Ladder Brewing Touts GrowthC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Hook & Ladder Brewing Company, a Washington, D.C.-area venture started by a volunteer firefighter and his business-minded brother, is bucking negative economic trends and experiencing tremendous growth this year, despite...

Articles 2009-06-08

Enjoy fish head curry on banana leaf: when in Little India, do as the Indians do—eat curry and rice with your fingers. Start your meal with papadam, and then enjoy the spicy fish head curry served on fresh banana leaf

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DINING OFF the banana leaf is probably as environmentally friendly as it is rustic. For the urban dweller, the banana leaf would be an unusual crockery item. For regulars or others who have at least dined once at The Banana Leaf Apolo, using the large leaf...

Articles 2008-12-01

Capitalising on the wine craze

DENISE the Wine Shop started its operations in Malaysia in 1998. After starting a chain of over 16 stores, David Lim, its founder, branched out to Singapore in August 2006. Within a short span of six months, he established 10 outlets and by end 2007, he would have increased this...

Articles 2008-12-01

Passion for nature: two nature lovers made a business out of what they enjoy doing. Bee Choo and Morten run an outlet selling books, gifts, and souvenirs. They have gone into nature publishing as well

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...

Articles 2008-12-01

Resilience entrepreneurship helps you to bounce back

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When you start your own business, if you are realistic, you have to know that there's a chance you may fail. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are risk takers. Starting a new business is a huge risk and as you grow a new business, you will be taking...

Articles 2008-12-01

The case of the pregnant employee: Ember's services with a consultancy was terminated after she became pregnant. She felt that the firm was unsympathetic towards its employees and fired them to avoid paying for their maternity leave

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN EMBER Seet, 27, joined Big Four Consultancy as an auditor, she was very happy in her work as the management was pro-family and the staff members worked as one happy family. During the employment interview with the managing partner, Lim Ooi Keat, 48,...

Articles 2008-12-01

Lone wolf knives: where the old meets the new

Scarcely 10-years old, Lone Wolf Knives is still a newcomer to the cutlery scene, but an interesting marketing approach has given the company a strong sense of tradition. Lone Wolf jumped into the knife scene by recruiting two long time innovators--Bob Loveless and Paul Poehlmann--as collaborators on their early offerings....

Articles 2008-10-01

Truly good? A good start is to choose wisely

While teaching on an almost daily basis, clients often ask me what practice can they do to get better? This is a good question generally asked by people with the best of intentions. It could be a somewhat loaded question based on the fact much of the end result rests...

Articles 2008-10-01

Elegance defined: classic scope mounts from Conetrol

I first used a riflescope more than 40-years ago and have used them almost exclusively for hunting ever since. I can't recall shooting a single head of big game using iron sights since buying that first scope. Scopes were used by avant-garde types in the 1920s and '30s,...

Articles 2008-10-01

What can be learned from the roller coaster journeys of young people making ultimately successful transitions beyond school?

This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...

Articles 2008-09-22

Interview with Mark Watson

Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...

Articles 2008-09-22

Applying for your own job: a preliminary study

This study undertook a small preliminary investigation of the contemporary employment practice of 'applying for your own job'. There has not yet been a specific study into the effect upon individuals and organisations of the practice of existing employees being required to apply for the same or...

Articles 2008-09-22

Job search experience

In helping people find work we should aim to provide services that address their needs. What sorts of difficulties do people report? What steps do people take in order to find work? Have there been any changes over time? Answers to some of these questions are provided...

Articles 2008-09-22

I Want What She's Having: The Experience Of Creating A Pleasurable Business

I WANT WHAT SHE'S HAVING: THE EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A PLEASURABLE BUSINESS. Naomi Simson, Messenger Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9803284-0-0 Have you ever wanted to discover what it is really like inside a fast growing business?' is the question posed on the back cover...

Articles 2008-09-22

Career Endeavour: Pursuing A Cross-Cultural Life Transition

CAREER ENDEAVOUR: PURSUING A CROSS-CULTURAL LIFE TRANSITION Charles P. Chen, hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006, 164pp., ISBN 978-0-7546-4621-1 Charles Chen states that the purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of life career transition in the context of cross-cultural adjustment. To...

Articles 2008-09-22

Ruger's LCP: a potent .380 pocket pistol

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In those wonderful pre-politically correct days when I was a kid they were called "belly guns." Those with cylinders were known as snub-nosed revolvers while semiautos were usually called "pocket pistols." For me, whether it's a revolver or a semiauto, if it fits easily into the...

Articles 2008-09-01

ProTech knives

Dave Watenberg grew up around knives--knives that served as tools. His father owned a cutlery shop, so Dave saw the good, the bad and the sublime of the knife world. He graduated from being an assistant in his dad's shop, to selling knives himself. That was when he noticed a...

Articles 2008-09-01