Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

" | Main | Siena by Car - "You Idiot" » July 11, 2010 Leaders Travel Light I learned it the hard way, really, by dragging bulky bags through crowded bus terminals, onto packed trains, and up stairs at a five-hundred year-old hotel.

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Travel Hotels Blog Commitment 118

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Grow Your Career in Finance and Banking Utah’s stable economy has attracted financial institutions. It has firmly become a thriving hub for finance and banking professionals. Job seekers can explore roles in finance, accounting, and investment management.

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Real Estate Tourism Finance Automotive 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2022

On the day Hugo and Otilia took their walk, I was facilitating a leadership workshop on how to implement the peace accords, and I’d invited the participants to choose a partner who was most different from them and go for a 45-minute stroll outside the hotel. He was almost staggering, and I asked him what had happened.

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Workshop Participative Learning-by-Doing Open-book 115

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest obstacle people face when torn between staying and leaving is usually their finances. Before spending a lot of money on tickets and hotels, check with yourself that you won’t regret it once you’re halfway across the world. Hotels also require a vast range of staff. Think Carefully.

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Travel Career Hotels Tourism 51

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

A week ago, I had to buy expensive plane tickets for a business trip to Ireland and put two nights’ hotel accommodation on my card. and need to keep proper track of my finances. Now, I’m extremely uncomfortable about this as I don’t earn loads (on top of it, I live in London!)

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Company Travel Hotels Finance 61

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Remember: most Airbnb users opt for it as a cheaper alternative to a hotel. So, unless your property possesses hotel-caliber quality, you’re going to want to price it substantially lower than a typical hotel in your area. This will, of course, result in you losing money. Find a Mentor.

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Tips Management Hotels Price 11

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 13, 2012

If you plan ahead you will spend less than a really great hotel and the experience of reconnecting can be amazing for both of you. Could planning your personal finances be in your future? A comfortable bed and a room with a view is great. Make a new habit – Could it be that you need to do a Bible study together?

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Bottom-up Budgeting Hotels Edmondson 75

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG.

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Crisis Management Committee Hotels Webinar 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2019

Some people choose to buy things through finance options. But, this can happen more often than you realise, and if you do end up with a case of food poisoning from your holiday hotel or at restaurant then you do have every right to flag up your complaint and report the issue to the relevant governing bodies.

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Hotels Insurance Energy Finance 50

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. Depending on the type of business you plan to open, you may need a small business loan to help get you up and running.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A virtual assistant helps clients with everyday tasks like making phone calls, sending emails, managing finances, or other administrative duties. An online travel agent connects travelers with hotels, car rentals, flights, cruises, vacation packages, and tours. Virtual Assistant. Online Travel Agent. Photographer.

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Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2022

A virtual assistant helps clients with everyday tasks like making phone calls, sending emails, managing finances, or other administrative duties. An online travel agent connects travelers with hotels, car rentals, flights, cruises, vacation packages, and tours. Virtual Assistant. Online Travel Agent. Photographer.

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Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

lies [in] the divergence of compensation for similar workers among establishments and firms,” wrote Freeman in an essay about the difference in how different hotels pay their workers, which he believes illustrates his research. In some ways, though, hotel workers are not the typical case.

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Bryson Hedge Company Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Leading electronics firms have bartered discontinued stock, placing it in leading hotels in exchange for media and trade credits — gaining a potential new client in the hotel group in the process. Haymarket Exhibitions made part payment for advertising using tickets to their exhibitions.

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Hotels Real Estate Advertising Travel 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked.

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Operations Hotels Finance Process 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

For the wedding, I've seen estimates of $80 million in revenues to hotels in London and retailers selling souvenirs such as dishes, pillows, and playing cards. Those are actions that princes of finance should leave to the real princes. There are estimates that the royal wedding will be the most expensive security event in U.K.

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CEO Apparel GDP Audience 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking. We don''t offer every possible hotel, but we do offer unpublished rates for tens of thousands of the very best. That sets us apart from our competitors.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

For example, the Tata Group's sprawling empire has churned out innovative automobiles and hotel formats, reframed the watch industry, and brought innovative IT services to overlooked small and medium businesses. Homegrown companies are also increasingly introducing innovative ideas. A focus on business models. Have you heard of Tencent?

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Of course, as anyone who''s applied for a loan or credit card well knows, rating customers is an integral part of global finance. Have a reputation as being an unusually picky and quarrelsome guest at a popular hotel chain? If reliability and good behavior doesn''t scale, they can''t succeed.

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Media Hotels Reputation Price 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? And sometimes they may even find the niche was much bigger than they thought. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? And sometimes they may even find the niche was much bigger than they thought. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They holed up at the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue and heard from top business school researchers and behavioral psychologists about dangerous cognitive biases. Finance Recession' In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Perhaps one day that might be true of bankers as well.

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Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

InterContinental Hotels Group. Hilton Hotels & Resorts. Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Automotive. Cisco Systems. Communication. British American Tobacco. Alibaba Group. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And she's got other clients right in our wheelhouse: Loro Piana, Element Hotels, Stella McCartney. He can certainly throw a party," Brooks said, thinking of the ridiculously detailed TTB forms and investor financing agreements he'd been working on at the office all day. You were brilliant to structure your financing the way you did.

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Case Study Finance Banking Brand 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

What will happen if the company doesn’t get its financing? In places where people might be nearby, like office spaces, airplanes, or hotels, I’ve gone to the bathroom to have quieter hissy fits, jumping up and down and shaking without letting my voice rise to high. What will happen if I don’t have enough time to finish my budget?

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Stress Long-term Uncertainty Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. And they’re not all that interested in the consistency and reliability offered by the name-brand hotels their parents patronized. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

the agents made no attempt to conceal their identity despite bringing the women to their hotel rooms; (2.) In his congressional testimony regarding the Colombia prostitution scandal , Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan denied that the Agency had long condoned a culture of misconduct.

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company is now pervasive - with 65 million unique visitors each month scouring the site for reviews of hotels, restaurants and sites around the globe. Every time a consumer clicked on a hotel to book a room, TripAdvisor would charge the hotel something. Suddenly, everything began to (literally) click.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. achieving public recognition (getting invited to sit on industry panels or writing a book).

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How To Crisis Management Learning Curve Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Then Merrill suggests Series A financing once a player has purchased all of the properties of a given color, so that hotel construction can begin as quickly as possible. So instead of giving every player $500 to start, "the banker will offer each player a convertible note of $1,000 at a 20% discount and 5% interest."

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Productivity Products Advertising Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

I was running a leadership offsite at The Allison Inn and Spa in Oregon — one of my favorite hotels — and the food, as always, was exquisite. I look forward to dinner well before I arrive at the hotel. The carrot cake at lunch was so delicious that I ate two pieces. And now I knew I would have to give it up.

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Hotels How To Resistance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Consider that a contiguous plot of land among otherwise fragmented land ownership can house the only hotel or plantation in an area. Serena Hotels, for example, through leases that are from 25 to 63 years long, enjoys a quasi-monopolistic situation in some of Kenya and Tanzania’s building-restricted national parks.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We made connections on the mundane as well as the meaningful — where to shop downtown or get a Caesar salad to go, what hotel to stay at in San Francisco or London for business, or how to earn the respect of the most important fund managers.

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Hotels Stress Finance Travel 10