CO2

JUNE 28, 2010

Sometimes that is the company meeting room but often times it is at their desk, home office, hotel room, or even a coffee shop! Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Now people may participate in video conference by Soltrite meetings from the place that is most convenient for them. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Video Quality Executive Coaching Conference 79

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

  We were meeting at the Mologne House Hotel on the Walter Reed Campus.    I spent some time talking  with Peter Anderson, the manager of the hotel.  Thanks for your continued leadership and insights, safe travels back for Italy! Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Blog Executive Coaching Open-book Hotels 146

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. Insight Center.

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Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The first time I met ‘Steve’ we were having lunch outside a hotel in Beverly Hills, and I remember he kept remarking about the beauty of our surroundings, the tremendous expanse of sky above us, and how terrific the food was. As we talked, that positive outlook was a continual presence. Consider leaving a comment!

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Travel CEO 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Becoming location-independent and traveling the world is more possible than ever. Try a travel pilot. Jenny Blake , author of Pivot , recommends piloting both your overall enjoyment of travel and the particular location you’re thinking about. For many of us, travel has always meant vacation. Paul Axtell.

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Travel Entrepreneur Hotels Planning 8

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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Hotels Globalization Travel Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The International Reciprocal Trade Association reports that in 2011 over 400,000 companies worldwide used bartering to earn an estimated $12 billion on unwanted or underused assets. What do Honda, Haymarket Exhibitions , and your plumber have in common? Business bartering is big, and it's happening at every level.

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Hotels Real Estate Advertising Travel 9

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011 1969 - "Hotel California" Conjures Up a Miracle Year The Grammy Awards were last night. Real music like this 1977 Grammy Record of the Year award-winner: "Hotel California," performed by the Eagles, written by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Hotel California is one of my all-time favorite songs.

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Hotels Sports Video Blog 92

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Examples include: Time-share condos, which combined the ideas of renting hotels and owning a condo. His experience comes from a hands-on background within the banking sector of the United Kingdom, followed by extensive travel, dialogue, and collaboration with customers, management consultants, and respected thought leaders around the world.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

A community of travelers help us select hotels that meet our personal preferences thanks to Trip Advisor. Social Nation sets forth the foundations for this new way of doing business. Amazon has brought together a nation of readers for those who want to share their feedback about books and help influence the choices of other readers.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In July 2011, Netflix announced a significant price increase that incensed consumers. It's fair to ask, if consumers have accepted dynamic pricing in the airline and hotel industries, why won't they for retailers? The key difference is that airlines and hotels have to use dynamic pricing.

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Retail Price Strategy Airlines 8

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. The site''s early ambitions were modest — provide a website for cash-strapped out-of-towners to find cheap places to crash, a form of budget travel known as couch-surfing.

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Hotels Disruptive Innovation Licensing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

But last fall, I changed all that and spent a month traveling around India with my girlfriend. But it also afforded me an opportunity few of my countrymen get to experience: seeing Mumbai firsthand, from its gilded corporate headquarters to its slums, and traveling throughout the less-visited southern part of the country.

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How To Travel Hotels Learning-by-Doing 14

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.

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Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. Let''s think about the travel industry. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Once we have traveled by Apple TV, we won''t go back. So let''s behold them.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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.

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Trends Media Influence Participative 21

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  Today I have an excellent resource for anyone who, like me, finds themselves traveling, working from hotels, or otherwise spends much of their work time away from a traditional office setting.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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Human Resources Hotels Blog Resources 133

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

But the needs of my company became the top priority during these vacations, and I spent the entire weekend of our trip in 2010 in the hotel room closing our first round of funding – and was unable to let my friends know what was going on because some worked in venture capital. Why One Executive Quit Business Travel Cold Turkey.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Technology Travel 12

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. Outside of health care, Watson is already creating new ecosystems for IBM in radically new areas such as recipe making, shopping, and travel. Insight Center.

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Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

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. Yet I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I traveled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. How could I refuse?

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 11

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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Hotels Proposal Seminar System 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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. If you’re in the upper-left quadrant, you are with industries that face high demand uncertainty but low technological uncertainty.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22