Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Technological uncertainty results from unknowns regarding the technologies that might emerge or be combined to create a new solution.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Tools 56

Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

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. A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. TheStreet.com steers us toward the stocks we should buy.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

The WEF is comprised of many groups, among them policy groups, civil society groups, technology pioneers, and many more. The Belvedere Hotel — probably the ritziest option on the strip — is known as a kind of "mini-Davos" itself, with many key meetings and casual get-togethers. It is cold here.

Hotels 14

Hotels Wilde Entrepreneur Bond 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In some cities, for example, sharing economy services have been banned under laws that prohibit unlicensed hotels, taxicabs, and other professional services. million in hotel taxes or registered as businesses. Airbnb growth has been doubling in shorter intervals for some time; last year, it booked 12 to 15 million "spaces.".

Hotels 8

Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Technology has also changed the picture for many brands in terms of building trust. It's a mistake for us to keep thinking and talking about technology simply as a platform for people to learn or communicate about brands. It is no longer just about exclusivity and status. It's also about networks, connections and communities.

Brand 15

Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 15

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.

Hotels 8

Hotels Globalization Travel Decentralization 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

When an eminent authority on leadership and change such as John Kotter states that, “To cope with new technological, competitive and demographic forces, leaders in every sector have sought to fundamentally alter the way their organizations do business…Yet, according to most assessments, few of these efforts accomplish their goals.

Strategy 70

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

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. First, she had to persuade many hotels in Spain to sign up for the service, often by conducting individual sales calls.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

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. Take the case of IBM’s Watson , a cognitive-computing technology that allows humans to make sense of large volumes of data. Insight Center.

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But an Apple-produced television has the potential to be so much more. Telepresence will happen.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

And whether you’re in the culinary arts, book publishing or cloud technology, when you become an entrepreneur, work-life balance becomes a thing of the past. There’s a reason why many compare starting a technology company to having a baby. Your work must subsume your life if you want any shot of making it big.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Hotels Technology Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse?

Politics 10

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was also partially accurate in predicting that Google would "strike back" in 2011. Air BnB turns homes into hotels and travelers into guests, providing both parties with an opportunity to make and save money. They did, with Google Plus, a formidable initiative that acts as Google's " social layer " to the Web.

Trends 20

Trends Media Influence Participative 20

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. James, MA, Ph.D.,

Hotels 62

Hotels Proposal Seminar System 62

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. Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8