Business Services Industry
GLOBAL PROPERTY.(Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.)
Crain's Chicago Business, June, 1999 by CORFMAN, THOMAS A.
Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. confronts a dual challenge: Master international expansion without losing sight of what makes a successful real estate company. While tenant representatives at the former LaSalle Partners Inc. were hunting for a new downtown headquarters for insurance giant Aon Corp., the real estate firm's top executives were looking over the horizon at their global prospects for the coming decades.
It wasn't lost on them that during the 21 months Aon spent looking for a new home office in Chicago, it also was buying other insurance firms -- a dozen in nine foreign countries -- and that every acquisition came with its own overseas real estate dilemmas. The Aon assignment that began in 1997 would generate the publicity and near-seven-figure fee that...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
