Leadership
The Smart Bet: Why Builders Must Invest More In Women
Labor shortages are strangling home construction, but the industry keeps overlooking its most untapped talent pool—women. It’s time, finally, for homebuilders to commit more broadly to change the game.
Leadership
With So Much Happening At Once, Here's Where To Focus
For compass headings amidst a heavy cloud of uncertainty, consumer bellwethers and leadership presence stand as constants.
Leadership
Capability Focus: Stakes Get Higher To Solve Skills Deficit
Strategies have begun to line-up and tap investment to reverse the skills hemorrhage plaguing building. Now it's time to commit to a cultural pivot to make construction's many job sites places to thrive.
Leadership
A Semi-Custom Production Hybrid Fit For Bumpier Times
In Houston-based Partners In Building's acquisition of Dallas-based custom-builder Paul Taylor Homes, we explore the nimble, operations-focus capability at scaling personalization for a value-driven buyer.
Leadership
Top 25 Ivory Prize Finalists In Construction, Policy And Finance
The 2022 cohort of standouts in design and construction, finance, policy and regulation, innovators feature high- and low-tech gamechangers that can scale, sustain, and exert impact on housing affordability's chronic pain points.
Leadership
Builders, Facing Turnover Risk, Gather Data To Power Retention
Tactics, strategies, commitment, and investment in team member engagement -- both to improve performance and elevate customer experience -- come to light in new Building Talent Foundation research.