Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In this context, they see bartering as a way to steer around the restrictions imposed by cash and credit, to extract value from perishable or underperforming assets, and to expand channels to market and find new customers. Haymarket Exhibitions made part payment for advertising using tickets to their exhibitions.

Hotels 13

Hotels Real Estate Advertising Travel 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. 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. Find your niche in a sizable market.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Within the confines of good taste, we hope, the Brits are marketing the heck out of the wedding. 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.

CEO 20

CEO Apparel GDP Audience 20

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. The sales and marketing director said he was receiving complaints about sloppy service. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong.

Operations 12

Operations Hotels Finance Process 12

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? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit ").

Venture Capitalist 21

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? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit ").

Venture Capitalist 21

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. The race for the middle.

Trends 15

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For the past 15 years, I have relied on Debbie Laskey's Blog for expert leadership guidance and always interesting insights into marketing best practices and recaps of marketing trends. However, from the first moment in my first marketing course, I found my calling. Question: What company brands impress you the most, and why?

Marketing 86

Marketing Airlines Brand Hotels 86

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? Do your marketing and/or procurement teams enjoy bullying your vendors a little too much?

Media 14

Media Hotels Reputation Price 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

After all, Brooks was the one who'd spent five years working on beverage deals in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley and had recognized the growth opportunities in the premium liquor market. And she's got other clients right in our wheelhouse: Loro Piana, Element Hotels, Stella McCartney. I don't know what it's worth.

Case Study 16

Case Study Finance Banking Brand 16

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Deciding that personal computing is not a lucrative market is like spitting on small businesses. I think that so much could have been done and couple this decision with the move to pull the touchpad off the market so quickly and you have a strategic disaster.

Hotels 150

Hotels Wireless CEO Long-term 150

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. Provides access to experts or mentorship.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 14

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. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

EBITDA 12

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Whole Foods Market. InterContinental Hotels Group. compared to weighted average of 5.2% Consumer Goods.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

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.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. the agents made no attempt to conceal their identity despite bringing the women to their hotel rooms; (2.) It has been wisely said that people don't do what you tell them to do; they do what you pay them to do.

Management 17

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

The study also found that consumers are more likely to call a business when making a high-value purchase in verticals such as auto, finance, or travel. According to the advertising and marketing advisory firm BIA/Kelsey , calls to businesses are expected to exceed 169 billion per year by 2020. Insight Center.

Hotels 8

Hotels Brand Advertising Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Lotta Tindal, the chief marketing officer for the Dutch hospitality group Ervaring Hotels & Resorts, hadn’t wanted to come to the presentation, but Gerard Bakker, Ervaring’s CFO, had twisted her arm. hotel brands — and was looking for more. “Stop acting like a teenager,” he joked.

Case Study 8

Case Study Travel Hotels NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Over three decades, I have watched my female colleagues vanish from the full-time job market, and I miss their competence and camaraderie. I'm not one to undervalue my male colleagues; in fact, I prefer a mix of men and women at work. As contemporaries of your own gender leave, work becomes lonely.

Hotels 10

Hotels Stress Finance Travel 10

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 records).

CEO 11

CEO CIO Technology CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever. Narrowly focused.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie.

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 404

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.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Like many of the Big Bang Disruptors we track, drones are piggybacking off the smartphone revolution, which has built efficient global markets for increasingly cheap off-the shelf cameras, processors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and software that can be embedded in UAS. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.). Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Utility bills in major markets have been consistently increasing faster than inflation and are forecasted to continue to do so. Many leading companies, including Wal-Mart , InterContinental Hotels , and many others are already seeing improvements to their bottom line from the solar/battery approach.

Management 8

Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“You need to be seen as credible” when you’re talking about the financial implications of your initiative to the finance group, for instance. “That’s the language of marketing,” says Butman. “It was the first hotel chain to ask, is [every day] linen changing necessary?”

Project 8

Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The project—Park 007—was a James Bond–themed amusement park with artificial ski slopes, cliffs for bungee jumping, roller-coaster rides, indoor water sports, casinos, cinemas, and two five-star hotels. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Now Vera was getting worked up.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Consult Professionals Navigating the complexities of retirement finances is challenging to do alone. A reputable advisor will assess your current finances, future goals, risk tolerance, and potential medical needs to create a customized retirement roadmap. Pay Off Debt Entering retirement with no debt is the ideal scenario.

Tips 95

Tips Discount Budgeting Real Estate 95

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. Then they rushed back to their headquarters in Times Square and made some of the worst snap decisions in the history of financial markets. Finance Recession'

Banking 10

Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best.

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8

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. Focus on the reasons you are traveling and make them marketable. Think Carefully.

Travel 51

Travel Career Hotels Tourism 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Education Supply Chain 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, new research from the University of Surrey highlights how robots could be rolled out in the hotel industry as the sector attempts to assure guests that their stay will not compromise social distancing requirements. Digital transformation of healthcare.

Innovation 103

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 103