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Compressed Time Lines - Effective Leadership Tactics

Compressed Time Lines - Effective Leadership Tactics

The job of a corporate real estate executive certainly isn’t getting any easier. With more viable real estate options in increasingly diverse markets,...

2007 CiCi Awards - Corporate Investment Top 15

2007 CiCi Awards - Corporate Investment Top 15

Ford Motor Company — Southeastern Michigan. Facing intense global competition, decreased market share, rising operating costs, and excess U.S. industr...

Portfolio Management: A Portfolio Perspective for Site Selection

Portfolio Management: A Portfolio Perspective for Site Selection

In many ways, site selection has become a finely-tuned process. Data on key variables -- labor market trends, realestate, transportation and energy co...

Best Approaches Toward Manufacturing and Distribution Facilities Location

Best Approaches Toward Manufacturing and Distribution Facilities Location

This article illustrates the main differences and also the commonalities associated with the execution of location strategy for manufacturing and dist...

2007 CiCi Awards - Community Impact Top 15

2007 CiCi Awards - Community Impact Top 15

* Boeing C-17 Program — Long Beach, California* If an industrial operation scheduled for termination is sufficiently large, even a brief reprieve can ...

Biotechnology: News & Notes from BIO (Biotechnology Industry Association)

Biotechnology: News & Notes from BIO (Biotechnology Industry Association)

States and regions across the country are working to develop and promote the growth of their bioscience bases, according to the study “Growing the Nat...

Bioscience and Virginia - A Perfect Match

Bioscience and Virginia - A Perfect Match

Space to grow, a pool of talented professionals and a business-friendly, low-cost environment that stimulates growth are necessary ingredients for the...

Bioscience Clusters - Convergence and Coordination

Bioscience Clusters - Convergence and Coordination

We’ve been told that the biosciences represent the future. And plainly we believe it. Otherwise, we wouldn’t lavish so many resources on commercializi...

Wisconsin: The Core of Biotech Discovery

Wisconsin: The Core of Biotech Discovery

From the development of the Babcock Milk Test in the late 19th century to the isolation of human embryonic stem cells in the late 20th century, the St...

Empires of the Mind - Part 2: Site Selection & Emerging Agricultural Biotechnology Regions

Empires of the Mind - Part 2: Site Selection & Emerging Agricultural Biotechnology Regions

Despite the overwhelming concentration of the pharmaceutical and research-based biotechnology industry, many American cities remain committed to makin...