Well-to-do driving remodel behavior
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Homeowners spent a new high of $138.1 billion on home improvement in 2003, an increase driven by affluent consumers, according to a new study by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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Chasing relative performance leads to a short-term orientation.
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AKRON, Ohio -- We tune up our cars, our furnaces, our lawn mowers. Maybe it's time we tuned up the safety conditions of our homes.
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Vendors of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can expect their market to become more buoyant as companies ponder purchasing new systems or boosting the functionality of existing ones, according to ...
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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Enterprises are focusing the customer experience like never before. In fact, over 80 percent of those recently surveyed by Forrester Research say that customer satisfaction will be more important for them this year than last. Almost none indicated that it would be less important in the coming months.
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The road to greater return and less risk.
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Blog: Building energy costs fit within this tidy interface to help a home become more efficient.
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Going green with certain home improvements can save you big.
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Fulfillment leads to achievement, not the other way around.
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Can remodeled stores and smart overseas expansion kick-start growth? It better.
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A new initiative seeks to improve old products.
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By Sheikh, Imran; Lovins, Amory B  THE STRATEGIES USED BY CHEMICAL ENGINEERS TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT DESIGNS may vary, but they probably reflect the methodologies we learned in engineering school. So, it is only natural that we use them almost intuitively in the work place.
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Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? Right -- that strategy is change.
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A few little changes in behavior can reap big savings.
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New windows? New siding? No problem, right? Not necessarily. In many parts of the region, home renovations both major and minor must be approved by a design review board. These groups sign off on changes in historic neighborhoods and in those that aren't quite yet historic. For instance, Columbia...
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