The Site Selection team pays a lot of attention to all the data and analysis out there in order to direct your attention to the data, analysis and storytelling in here. That means continuous learning and new lessons every day. It’s the sort of “research investigative query” described in the exclusive excerpt from the new book “Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter — and What Really Does” found in this issue’s workforce feature. As I made my way through that book, it occurred to me that what the authors were suggesting college students do was similar to what good journalism does: Combine your natural and unrelenting curiosity with proactive research and actual conversations to develop a personal pathway to your envisioned degree and career (in our case, it’s a pathway to a compelling and informative story).
Central to that endeavor is talking to the right people.
Correction: Listening to the right people.
Across our spectrum of print and online news and our 71-year history, if there’s one thing we’ve learned it’s who to learn things from. Partners and contributors in this issue alone bring invaluable and exclusive insights to the 16th edition of the Site Selection Sustainability Rankings, Ron Starner’s topical “Inflation Busters” report, Alexis Elmore’s reporting from the Global Entrepreneurship Congress for our annual Startup & Innovation Hubs rankings, and such topics as site development, research & science parks, smart cities, rural economic development and, as in every issue, Asia, thanks to our partners at Tractus.
We steer exclusive insights into these pages and online so that our final product is a compendium of location intelligence. On top of the proprietary data found in Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database and our status as the official publication of the Industrial Asset Management Council, the braintrust in this issue includes such names as Switzerland’s IMD, Global Location Strategies, Measurabl, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, The Boyd Company, the Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers, McGuireWoods, CSRHub, the Site Selectors Guild, the Association of University Research Parks, Keyser, Development Counsellors International and the Center for Active Design (Fitwel), among others.
In short, it’s a long list. Which is just right for a publication that seeks to earn the sort of endorsement we received in June: “I love your magazine. It literally sits on my coffee table right now,” wrote Nicole Bennett, executive managing director and Americas logistics & industrial lead at Cushman & Wakefield. “I truly do read it, rely on it for additional industry expertise and share segments of it with our leadership team and clients. PLEASE DO NOT STOP PRINTING this magazine. As someone who is on airplanes and traveling regularly, I often use your magazine and others to catch up on reading while in flight or on the run. I spend SO much time in front of a computer, I don’t want to read an entire magazine online. I look forward to reading your publication in actual page turns!”
Turn this page to find out what she’s talking about.
