Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2017
As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries.
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 IT management' million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2016
Hotel bar @ 7? He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. Still, when just a few days after their drinks in the hotel, he’d asked her out on a “real date,” Elizabeth initially demurred, wondering if it was a good idea. Elizabeth: The whole gang? Brad: Just me. Elizabeth: OK.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 14, 2017
As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Human capital. Intellectual capital.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2015
It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel. As Jo Coombs, Managing Director at OgilvyOne, London, observes, “I don’t think it can just be one or the other. When sales managers saw a rush of customers, they could put more people on the front desk.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2016
Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Vera’s Perspective.
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