Alaxandria Marvar, Elevators make the modern city possible. In New York City alone, commuters take an estimated 4 million elevator rides per day on tens of thousands of elevators. In China, two-thirds of a million of them are put into commission every year. Globally, the industry approaches $125B. But as cities continue to grow — and grow vertically — this crux to innovation may ultimately be the Achilles' heel of the city as we...

Alexandra Marvar, For commercial real estate companies that didn’t have a crisis management plan, the pandemic has been a rude awakening. It has also been an opportunity to take notes. According to BDO USA’s Ross Forman, managing director of corporate real estate advisory services, as many as 50% of businesses globally didn’t have a business continuity playbook in place before the coronavirus, and a large percentage of those that did...