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Midwest markets demonstrate resiliency during pandemic

by David Ronsick, Ryan Wallace, Dan Askew and Marissa Oberlander | Dec 14, 2021 | The Analyst, zOurWriters1

The Midwest region is a broad geography encompassing the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi and Ohio River watersheds. Major cities in the area include well-known names like Chicago and Detroit, and fast-growing smaller cities like Minneapolis and Columbus, OH. While...

Solutions for the butts in seats debate: time to get creative and listen to our customers/employees, part 2

by Elaine Worzala | Dec 14, 2021 | The Professor

Last week, I started the discussion of the great debate that is actually turning into the great resignation. Employees are talking with their feet and when a company starts demanding that they come back to the office they make the choice that it’s time to find a more...

Mr Socialist confesses a love of opera

by Garrison Keillor | Dec 13, 2021 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

Free enterprise is fascinating, especially for us socialist communists who want to make the world into a dormitory with a cafeteria where on Mondays everyone has mac and cheese and on Tuesdays franks and beans, and so forth, but with free enterprise you get to see old...

Amazon and Tesco’s checkout-free stores

by Kokho Jason Sit | Dec 13, 2021 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

A niche idea that won’t save the high street. There have never been so many different ways to shop for groceries. The biggest chains offer customers a choice of vast superstores, smaller branches and online options to buy from home. Now some of the UK’s best-known...

Positioned for growth

by Sebastian Seah and Dr Chua Yang Liang | Dec 9, 2021 | Head Of Research

The student housing market Global demand for tertiary education has been on a rising trend, underpinned by a need for more skilled labour to support growing economies and socio-demographic trends of an increasing university-aged population and rising incomes. These...