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Management
Marketing Through Color
With the multitude of architectural, environmental and site considerations involved in home building today, the application of color is often reduced to a last minute perusal of variations on white, beige and gray. Yet, a growing number of respected buil
Management
The Team Member Application
We are interested in a few key things when it comes to job candidates: It is often difficult to ferret out pertinent information from a candidate's resume. An objective and/or a professional summary can distract from the really pertinent information.
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Huot Manufacturing
Huot Manufacturing's Bit Buddy is a clip-on drill index that holds up to 29 drill bits. The Bit Buddy has a cup-shape with a dome cover. Its plastic housing is water resistant, which makes it suitable for inside production work and adaptable to outsi
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Manifest Density
John O'Sullvan wrote in 1845 that it was "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent ... for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." A journalist covering Texas' bumpy annexation to the union, he coined a term sore
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Stocks Crawl to End First Quarter
Wall Street ended a sluggish quarter on March 31, 2005, the close of our trading session, sagging on stellar oil prices. Investment firm Goldman Sachs predicted a sharp jump in energy prices, and that negative outlook weighed against higher United States
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Building best practices
GIANT home builders face unique challenges today: increased risk and liability; more complex home design; new materials and methods; changing building codes; diversity of specialty contractors; divisions spread across geographic regions; and high employe
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Ara Hovnanian: A New Way To Grow
New Jersey-based Hovnanian Enterprises is rocketing up the rankings of public home builders, thanks to the velvet touch of a leader who eschews the conventional strategy of concentrating production at the pricing mid-point in the top 50 housing markets.
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How to Be the Big Dog
Does market share really matter? And if it does, why do even the largest home builders in most markets struggle to achieve market share greater than 10 percent? Can anyone do today what Ray Ellison Homes did in San Antonio in the 1980s — reach a ma
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How to Win the War for Talent
Companies recognized for producing top talent have, for years, used a competency-based (also referred to as a behavior-based) interviewing approach for assessing talent when recruiting new employees. A close examination of competency-based methodologies
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Starting from scratch
Whether they sold their previous companies or left on their own terms after a sale, some home building alums can't seem to stay away from the building business. They're scratching their entrepreneurial itch and starting over with a new company &#
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