Remove EBITDA Remove Engineering Remove Marketing Remove Operations
article thumbnail

Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

While its competitors were spending lavishly on new equipment, ALL repaired decommissioned engines from its "dead fleet," bought used locomotives from African carriers, and replaced damaged sections of the main line with dismantled tracks from abandoned parking stations.

article thumbnail

The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

EBITDA 8