As we watch rent and home prices soar around the country, it's easy to forget that the U.S. housing market includes far more options than just luxury condo towers and single-family homes.

In fact, multi-family dwellings and mobile h...

Few would mourn the death of the traditional car-buying experience. The haggling and the I-have-to-talk-to-my-manager routine. The multi-hour wait for financing as you sit through sales pitches for extras like leather protection and roof racks. <...

Family offices looking for a recession-resistant opportunity to diversify portfolios may have overlooked a low-risk exposure to a real estate sector that has steadily outperformed higher profile investments such as hotels and apartments. While it...

Company founders are forces of nature. Their driven personalities take their firms from garage to multi-million dollar ventures, while also inspiring passion in those who work for them.

Yet as their companies scale into sprawling affa...

The U.S. M&A market for managed IT services providers (MSPs) was red hot in 2021. We analyzed market activity and reviewed 78 transactions announced during the year. Despite that torrid pace, many buyers missed out on transactions and their a...

The "Great Resignation" has defined the trend of U.S. workers quitting jobs at a record pace. But the future of work is being reshaped by the "Great Reimagination."

As employees are breaking out of the 9-to-5 paradigm, they in...

It's getting harder and harder for independent HVAC and plumbing companies to compete with larger platforms.

A confluence of factors - ranging from new technologies, the growing importance of digital marketing, supply chain shortage...

What do you remember from the last time you had a training day or had to complete an online learning module for work? If you're like most people, the honest answer is varied, from "I remember some" to "I don't remember much."

The gold rush is on for fashion re-sellers like The RealReal, Poshmark and ThredUp as consumers look for clothing that is sourced more sustainably than "fast fashion," which has been linked to poor foreign labor conditions and pollution.

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Chances are you know someone whose family acquired a "pandemic puppy" to help them weather the Covid-19 lockdowns. Pets have become beloved, pampered family members whose well-being is viewed as an essential household budget item, making the...

Three years ago, 100 million fans around the world tuned in excitedly to watch the final of a major sports tournament. But it wasn't the World Cup final or the World Series; it was the League of Legends championship, which highlighted 24 video...

The outlook for managed services providers (MSPs) remains positive, as increasing complexity and security concerns - driven by the work-from-anywhere environment and high-profile hacking incidents - have moved IT management from being a cost...

The rapid spread of Covid's Delta variant has derailed family vacations, delayed office reopenings and heightened fears that our suspended reality will go on for years to come.

But even with the continued disruption and changing gov...

It's a great time to be in the MSP business. The industry finds itself uplifted by a whirlwind of three forces - cloud migration, COVID, and consolidation - that together are creating sunny days for MSP owners and operators.

A ser...

Prior to the pandemic, hospitals were marching toward solutions that paid homage to the heads-and-beds model, with its tight margins. They were investing in specialists to bring elective surgeries in-house. They were becoming more efficient on th...

If you think the white-hot housing market is a supernova that's destined to burn out, here's some advice: Put on your heat-deflecting space suit.

The factors that led to the housing boom and sellers market are still very much with...

America is facing its worst housing shortage in 50 years. Don't expect an improvement any time soon.

With a nationwide shortage of 3.8 million single-family homes, it is a fantastic time to be a home seller, but a frightening and fr...

Each month, with great fanfare, investors await the release of the Consumer Price Index, the headline metric that politicians and pundits cite as they opine about inflation.

Oral surgery isn't a prospect that patients usually approach with much enthusiasm.

But the specialty is starting to generate excitement among private equity investors as they wake up to its potential to emulate the success they've...

The common image of Japan is of a conservative country where change happens slowly. That's true, but it's also a society that can shift very rapidly when the barriers to change suddenly fall. At that time, social consensus re-aligns efficient...