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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
says. “It had all the earmarks for a huge success, but it wasn’t.” Why? “I was an absentee owner,” explains McCann. “I wasn’t networked into the community. In Santa Cruz, nobody knew me. I’d thought it was the great location that would...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
didn’t follow smaller developers who flip houses, renovating and selling them quickly, often further inflating housing prices. And he definitely did not follow in the footsteps of the slumlords, those absentee owners who have long reigned...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
market. Apart from insurance claims, there is the productivity value of getting people back to work sooner. If the average absenteeism across corporate America is about 4 to 5 percent, then the value of saving a fraction of this would be...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United States housing advocates. In...
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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, absenteeism from workers diagnosed with depression costs US workplaces an estimated $23 billion annually in lost productivity. That number, however, only calculates losses based on days employees...
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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
helps modulate social interactions and emotion. Being kind is good for our own and our employees' mental health." And that translates to improved morale and performance. Here's what Psychology Today had to say about kind bosses: "They have been shown to increase...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ranging from subtle suggestion to social ostracism, if not outright retaliation. Absentee and anonymous shareholders are unlikely to experience such influences. Thus, as a practical matter, shareholders cannot be made more accountable...
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by Carla Tishler
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the economics for the employer of getting the type of productivity improvement and reduction to absenteeism you referred to earlier, are they similar across industries? Are they as compelling for a company that does have a big hourly or...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
residual 48%. The factors most strongly correlated with state fixed effects are the availability of Election Day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, as well as electoral competitiveness. Education is the only variable...
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Dina Gerdeman