Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. 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.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. The sales and marketing director said he was receiving complaints about sloppy service. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. And something was wrong.

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Operations Hotels Finance Process 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Whole Foods Market. InterContinental Hotels Group. compared to weighted average of 5.2% Consumer Goods.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As my colleagues noted in a Harvard Business Review article earlier this year, the extremes in most Asian markets are well served. Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. The race for the middle.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Education Levitt Retail Training 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. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services. Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer similar services.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or there’s Nairobi’s SuzieBeauty, which develops cosmetics catering to African tastes at quality matching Western levels. Consider that a contiguous plot of land among otherwise fragmented land ownership can house the only hotel or plantation in an area.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

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. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Utility bills in major markets have been consistently increasing faster than inflation and are forecasted to continue to do so. Many leading companies, including Wal-Mart , InterContinental Hotels , and many others are already seeing improvements to their bottom line from the solar/battery approach.

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Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

After all, Brooks was the one who'd spent five years working on beverage deals in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley and had recognized the growth opportunities in the premium liquor market. And she's got other clients right in our wheelhouse: Loro Piana, Element Hotels, Stella McCartney. I don't know what it's worth.

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Case Study Finance Banking Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. and Canada, for example, have already established rules for some commercial drone activities, giving their start-ups the opportunity to develop new applications and businesses while U.S. Both the U.K.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit ").

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit ").

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

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.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14