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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. CMI members always see more.

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Walk Your Way to Solving Your Most Complex Challenges

Strategy Driven

On the day Hugo and Otilia took their walk, I was facilitating a leadership workshop on how to implement the peace accords, and I’d invited the participants to choose a partner who was most different from them and go for a 45-minute stroll outside the hotel. He was almost staggering, and I asked him what had happened. About the Author.

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9 Airbnb Property Management Tips Every Host Should Know

Strategy Driven

Remember: most Airbnb users opt for it as a cheaper alternative to a hotel. So, unless your property possesses hotel-caliber quality, you’re going to want to price it substantially lower than a typical hotel in your area. If you really want to get the price right, you could consider utilizing an online Airbnb pricing tool.

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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers

Harvard Business Review

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. The New Tools of Marketing. Insight Center.

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Five Years After Lehman’s Collapse, Bankers Still Haven’t Confronted Their Biases

Harvard Business Review

They holed up at the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue and heard from top business school researchers and behavioral psychologists about dangerous cognitive biases. In the past, reputation was an effective tool to police bad financial behavior. Finance Recession' Perhaps one day that might be true of bankers as well.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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