PB March 2001

While business-to-consumer e-commerce initiatives targeted toward home builders are still popping up so fast it’s hard to sort them out, the pace is distinctly slower on the business-to-business side.

The word has been out for years. Higher bandwidth telephone wire is a must for new homes.

As any Internet search reveals, “virtual” anything can be found virtually everywhere. And one of the biggest markets for virtual technologies is home building.

With the economy clearly on a downswing, the Bush Administration is proposing a comprehensive tax stimulus package to combat slowing economic growth and prevent a recession.

The process of stepping into adulthood is the same for organizations as it for individuals. Beginning building firms require the most support and guidance. They lean hard on their suppliers for quality information and guidance that will enable their yo...

The Director of Environmental Programs for one of the pioneer builders of the green movement talks about how she got started.

Maybe public home builders will finally get their due. The big builders have always felt under appreciated by investors and analysts, but for more than a year, it’s really been acute.

Has the potential of Internet technology got you day dreaming? Join the club.

Who controls the quality circle in your company?

David Hunihan and Todd Menke are two of my newest heroes. These two founders of Fidelity Homes did what it is so very hard to do—believe in an idea so passionately that they had no choice but to act on it. For these two thirty-somethings the idea that ...