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The New Pressures Facing CMOs and How to Overcome Them

Harvard Business

I served as CMO for Deloitte Consulting and then Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and when I have coached executive teams through transformations, I’ve seen many teams at an impasse with their CMO. ” This just when market pressures are suggesting the CMO should shift to sales support and product marketing.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Innovation ranks fifth, after more-conventional concerns such as attracting and retaining top talent and the regulatory environment. apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Employee brand engagement differs from “employer branding” or “employment branding,” terms that refer to an organization’s efforts to enhance its image to attract and retain talented employees.

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Zipcar Doesn’t Just Ask Employees to Innovate — It Shows Them How

Harvard Business

Westin, the hotel chain, awards its top innovators a five-day exotic trip each quarter. While most companies reward those who make a direct contribution to technology or product innovation, the best approach involves recognizing anyone who makes a significant contribution, regardless of the type of innovation.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business

These policy differences fostered the emergence of a less loyal, more footloose talent pool in Silicon Valley. Physical proximity to technology creators, cutting-edge engineering talent, complementors, and even competitors matters. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,