Harvard Business

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 101

Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 101

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Hotels 100

Hotels Oliver Wyman Travel Recruitment 100

Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 27, 2022

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Positioning yourself the wrong way can limit your income, cost you thousands of dollars a year in taxes, stunt your professional development, and tie you unnecessarily to the traditional 9-to-5 routine. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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Consulting Accenture Hotels Nonprofit 195

MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom. Bloomberg reports China Builds Its Own Manhattan -- Except It''s a Ghost Town.

Hotels 77

Hotels Banking Government Construction 77

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 1, 2020

Now, let me elaborate on why, despite coronavirus, a drastic drop in many consumer sectors, and stock market values plummeting, I don’t think we will have another Great Depression. In the case of the Great Depression, Black Monday 1987, and the Great Recession of 2008, the assets in question were stock market prices.

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Banking Insurance Insurance System 119

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

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Retail Fashion Consulting Marketing 153

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2018

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. Walter Thompson is currently developing its own signature scent, and Nelson Plant Food , too, uses scent branding to enhance the aroma of its product used by landscapers in upscale neighborhoods — fertilizer — with a floral scent.

Hotels 71

Hotels Real Estate Retail Productivity 71

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Marketers know they should keep their messages simple if they want to cut through the noise and reach customers. If you were entering the bottled water market alongside of Evian, following marketing principles might lead you to differentiate your brand on a dimension other than purity. Consider bottled water.

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Case Interview Marketing Bain Hotels 108

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s also more than “internal marketing” or “invertising,” which describe when an organization promotes its brand to employees as it would to customers and expects them to “buy” the message it’s trying to “sell” to them. Companies need stronger and more focused engagement.

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Company Training Training Culture 143

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

Construction 119

Construction Airlines Data Travel 119

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

One sales and marketing executive I know told me how he was flown to London with 20 of his colleagues, put up in a pricey hotel, and then trained to do the haka, a traditional war dance, by a group of Maori tribe members from New Zealand. Sometimes these events get really elaborate.

Survey 133

Survey Hotels Interviews Research 133

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Improving perception.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Jerry Fletcher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It is great to know you’re scheduled to speak somewhere and all the details have been taken care of, the flight, transfers, hotels. Jerry Fletcher is a sought-after International Speaker, a beBee ambassador, founder and CEO of Z-axis Marketing, Inc. Long term scheduling is a delight and a devilment. All that stuff.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Hotels Insurance 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

So far, the theory behind this laissez-fair regulatory approach — which many in Silicon Valley are happy to endorse — is that platform companies define new markets for which regulators were not prepared, and as such can’t be regulated in the same way as legacy companies. In contrast, in the U.S., In contrast, in the U.S.,

Hotels 70

Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 70

Harvard Business

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.

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Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

I’m used to that as these days so many organizations host events where they expect “Thought Leaders” to pay their own way to the event and pick up the cost of the hotel as well. What about business development value? The speech he developed proved to be crowd pleaser. Then he negotiated a speaking breakout with the booth.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Software ROI 52

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

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Retail Fashion Consulting Hotels 100

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. The Zipursky cousins are marketing masterminds, and have a deep expertise in how consultants can build a thriving consultancy.

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Consulting Journal Marketing Resources 120

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. HBR/Martin Barraud/Getty Images. Today it houses 120 highly educated retirees with an average age of 79 — and seven 20-something graduate students.

Education 136

Education Efficiency Study Hotels 136

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

The decisions I make are about my product development and my Costs of Delay. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. No hotel reimbursement before or after the two days of the conference. I do see my speaking as marketing. Sometimes, I'm not available.

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Conference Hotels Travel Consulting 69

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social?

How To 123

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 123

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). Parthenon brings in a new flavor, but actual integration is still a bit up in the air.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

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.

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Tourism Banking Hotels Financial 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. India has been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants.

Engineering 71

Engineering Wireless Education Marketing 71

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2024

Whether it’s financial services, healthcare, marketing, digital transformation, or sustainability, these firms bring a level of understanding and knowledge that can only be achieved through focused practice. As a result, these firms can quickly adapt to changes in the market and client needs.

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Agile Advertising Travel Consulting 88

Rod Burkert

JUNE 20, 2018

I’ve been spreading the gospel about BVFLS practice development since 2013. Five years (10,000 hours) into it, I finally developed my own framework that can be used to close the gap between the practice you have and the practice you want. Let me know if this model resonates and helps with your practice development efforts.

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Development How To Intellectual Property Mercer 40

Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

The Container Store offers its employees competitive pay and benefits, as well as a strong focus on training and development. Marriott International: Marriott International is a global hotel chain recognized for its commitment to servant leadership. Starbucks: Starbucks is a company identified for its commitment to servant leadership.

Leadership 112

Leadership Training Training Airlines 112

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2018

It is cliché to talk of Airbnb as the hotel company with no properties, or Uber as the taxi company with no cars. Attract enough users to ‘pay off’ the cost of developing and launching the feature. For example, social media networks and search engines are free for users, while advertisers are brought in as the marketplace develops.

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Advertising Operations Retail Examples 74

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. We identified significant platforms based on three different measures of importance: the five largest publicly traded ones by market cap; the five largest nonpublic startups by most recent valuation; and the five largest by web traffic.

Operations 70

Operations Hotels System Industry 70

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

AECOM is a leader in providing fully integrated professional, technical and management support services for a broad range of markets. GHK operates in three main areas: Public Policy, International Development, and Ports and Logistics. Website: www.navigant.com.

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Consulting Intellectual Property Engineering Real Estate 94

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The transformation that started in retailing, music, and movies in the 1990s has now spread to education, financial services, cars and trucks, transportation services, energy and the environment, hotels and lodging, life sciences, all types of manufacturing, and even shipping, to name just a few. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

Biotechnology 70

Biotechnology Software Hotels Transportation 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best. As markets change more rapidly, relevant selling behaviors will change as well.

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Sales Education Training Training 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or there’s Nairobi’s SuzieBeauty, which develops cosmetics catering to African tastes at quality matching Western levels. Consider that a contiguous plot of land among otherwise fragmented land ownership can house the only hotel or plantation in an area.

Cash Flow 70

Cash Flow Hotels Case Interview Productivity 70

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Even as recently as 2006, the concept of measurement, management and their impact on philanthropy was not considered a key tool to business development – that’s why The Ultimate Question 2.0 It surely helps avoid cumbersome and complicated market research tools. was published. The goal for NPS is about the future.

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Bain Survey Banking Metrics 100

freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Another market to target could be single parents who could get involved in tasking platforms such as Taskrabbit to earn money on a schedule that suits them and fits with their childcare commitments. an accommodation service expanding from rooms in the homes of individuals to underused space in existing hotels) and vertically (e.g.

Hotels 53

Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies. Vail Resorts remade their entire marketing strategy with a program called EpicMix. In many organizations, marketing comes after product development.

Advertising 71

Advertising B2B Survey B2C 71