Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Similarly, Airbnb hosts rarely install the protections required at hotels, such as sprinklers and fire escapes. Zenefits’ recently-ousted CEO even created a tool that enabled its agents to skip state-mandated online training courses.

Hotels 8

Hotels Price Tactics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. The New Tools of Marketing. And they’re not all that interested in the consistency and reliability offered by the name-brand hotels their parents patronized. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you’re a savvy social media user then you’ve already figured out that the knowledge a tool like Facebook is able to gather about your social connections is not only valuable to you. Today’s social networks see social tools not as their end product but as a means for acquiring data.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Hotels Reputation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Around the same time, Chinese companies like Foxconn were developing less expensive approaches to manufacturing, and opening those facilities up to product designers across the globe. Using such tools, companies that embrace economies of unscale compete with far larger competitors. Such unscaling is transforming the non-profit sector.

Parcell 15

Parcell Niche Marketing Business Model Education 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

They would certainly have had to confront a number of media-created myths, chief among them that the Olympics "cost" the taxpayers billions of dollars. The Olympics today more than pay for themselves with non-tax base revenues derived from media rights, sponsorships, licensing, and ticket sales.

Sports 14

Sports Construction Analysis Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Nurturing customer loyalty requires a better understanding of its nature, and the nature of loyalty depends on the economics of the business: loyalty to automobiles and mobile phones is qualitatively and quantitatively different than loyalty to hotels and airlines. Who is truly more valuable to an airline or hotel chain?

Customer Loyalty 8

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Airlines Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Marketing is changing so fast, it's easy to get our heads turned by new, high-tech developments. There's so much that's sexy in social media and in mobile right now," he said. A year ago, I traveled to Tissa's Inn , a small, charming hotel in that seaside community. Doesn't my company need a smartphone app?

Marketing 8

Marketing Telemarketing Hotels Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. The magic building blocks that Airbnb adds are tools for matching, spot pricing, and analyzing the data it collects on all participants in its ecosystem.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

When evaluating talent for recruitment or development, you have just two key questions to answer: What should you assess? But certain organizations, such as PepsiCo and Starwood Hotels and Resorts, are also analyzing employee data to create profiles of their most successful people — this gives them valuable benchmarks for outsiders.

Ethics 8

Ethics Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking Hotels 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We say the big bang disruption is this better and cheaper product or service that enters, and then because it’s better and cheaper, rational consumers who can spread information now much more easily among themselves through social media and so on, they’re going to tell each other, hey, don’t buy a standalone GPS navigation device.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

GV portfolio company Savioke found itself in this same situation: the team had spent months developing a delivery robot for hotels, but felt paralyzed by big questions about the robot’s personality and behavior. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?”

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Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Westin, the hotel chain, awards its top innovators a five-day exotic trip each quarter. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture. One of the greatest forms of employee recognition is an investment in someone’s personal growth and development. Other companies give experiential rewards to reinforce innovative behavior.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Through our research on network-centric businesses and our experience advising hundreds of companies we have developed a framework for understanding customer affinity. New tools and strategies. Happy about these results, Ann recommends it to all of her followers on social media. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

CRM 8

CRM Brand Business Model Intangible Assets 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Develop your Expertise Daily ​ Becoming a true expert in any field doesn’t come overnight, it takes months and sometimes even years of consistent study and practice. Gaining the right knowledge is key to developing expertise so be discerning about who and where you get your information from.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

and HPU Media Entrepreneur-In-Residence . Innovative educational initiatives like the President ’ s Seminar on Life Skills, a required course for all entering freshmen, ensure students grow not only in specific academic areas of expertise, but also develop competencies in communication, networking, coachability, fiscal literacy, and service.

Case Study 70

Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22