“On April 2, at the ULIsf’s Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) Organizational Meeting, after 30 years of ULI involvement, Executive Director Elliot Stein found himself in a very unusual situation: he was the only man in the conference room,” says San Francisco YLG member Kara Anderson. April 2, 2013 marked the first organizational meeting of the San Francisco branch of the ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative….
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How difficult is it to innovate from within government? Harriet Tregoning, Director of the Washington DC Office of Planning, explains the challenge and how “colossal failure” can be a great thing….
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Nina Gruen was ULI’s first woman trustee, elected to that post in 1982. She currently is the Principal Sociologist in charge of market research and analysis at her firm, Gruen Gruen + Associates, since co-founding the firm in 1970. The WLI spoke to her about her career path and her recent research on the effects that changing demographics will have on real estate….
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