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.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. And it does not stop there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS. based Hotel Tonight , a last-minute online-booking service founded in 2010. She identified her home country of Spain as a great market to port the model to. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. We saw what it's like to have as many hotels under construction as open; to hire 20,000 associates in one year; to watch consumers use smartphones to book same-day hotel rooms. Our relocation to China stretched our thinking. Let the local team shine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. For example, restaurants and hotels often have difficulty predicting demand for their services, because many factors influence whether, when, and where people eat out or travel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In an upcoming book and in a recent article in Harvard Business Review , my coauthor Christopher Zook and I identify the qualities of “the founder’s mentality” and show how all organizations, even those whose founders have long retired, can harness its vitalizing effects. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Inequality, in the broadest sense, is precisely, and perhaps paradoxically, what entrepreneurship is all about: entrepreneurs use their wit and grit to burst into new markets and generate extraordinary wealth, sometimes very quickly, more often over decades. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Harvard Business Review

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. In his book How Old Are You? HBR/Martin Barraud/Getty Images. This broader pattern is reflected in our neighborhoods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was also partially accurate in predicting that Google would "strike back" in 2011. Also, as part of a marketing campaign, Domino's Pizza posted feedback — unfiltered feedback — on a large billboard in Times Square, bringing together real opinions from real people pulled from a digital source and displayed in the real world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Expedia’s APIs allow people using third-party websites to tap its functionality in order to book flights, cars, and hotels. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. APIs allow firms to expand into markets they may never have previously considered. This ultimately led to an explosion in Twitter usage. Insight Center.

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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. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Now that we''re done, or nearly done, disintermediating old media like the newspaper, and supply chains like the book store, it''s time to solve that vexing problem of having to get ourselves from one place to another. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

One time I was on a business trip, and due to a series of events I had to get a hotel room with no reservation. I called several brand name hotels only to be told they were booked. But I went to one of the hotels I had called and used some specific techniques to build rapport with the woman at the front desk.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 21, 2010

If revenue is down, or if youve lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization.

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