Leadership
Eastwood Homes, Napolitano Unite In Culture-First M&A Deal
In a rare private-to-private M&A deal, Eastwood Homes acquires Virginia’s Napolitano Homes—uniting two family-founded builders in a move that blends culture, strategic market expansion, product synergy, and generational transition.
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In His Own Words: Larry Webb's 5 Teachable Moments As Leader
As one of the homebuilding business community's revered leaders looks back and looks ahead, here's a first MasterClass in building company cultures you can apply today.
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The Kitchen Table Lens: Builders' Pricing Strategies For 2022
Headline risks of price inflation and longer-haul supply chokeholds notwithstanding, here's how you might frame your pricing strategy for an extended stretch of limbo.
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Proof-Case: To Keep Pace With Consumers, Evolve Or Else
As an example of the business value of bold strategy and investment, take Kohler, never content with the status quo, but rather a leading barometer of consumer climate change.
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How Epic Partners Beat Epic Breakdowns In The Supply Chain
The story of Holiday Builders and its partners solving supply paralysis to deliver a home for a deserving veteran and his family is a story of people in homebuilding doing what others say, 'can't be done.'
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Past As Prologue: Where Subs' Field Feedback Saves Builders Money
An all-too-common path to cost control happens when builders tell suppliers, 'just get it done.' Here, from Ken Pinto's kaizen vault on throughput gains, is an alternative approach.