Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

No-cost 15 fruit and vegetable "brain foods" every day - Genesys Systems Integrator Fitness facility - Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa; Henderson Engineers Inc.; Tuition reimbursement - Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa Annual company golf championship - Holmes Murphy and Associates Family-friendly events - Renaissance Financial Corp.

Henderson 50

Henderson Hotels Ryan Company 50

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Many companies hire writers to create content for search engine optimization (SEO), blog posts, press releases, etc. Digital Marketing Specialist. As the name suggests, digital marketing specialists are responsible for all aspects of internet marketing. Freelance Writer. Web Developer. Customer Service Representative.

Advertising 52

Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2022

Many companies hire writers to create content for search engine optimization (SEO), blog posts, press releases, etc. Digital Marketing Specialist. As the name suggests, digital marketing specialists are responsible for all aspects of internet marketing. Freelance Writer. Web Developer. Customer Service Representative.

Advertising 52

Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

LDRLB

APRIL 28, 2020

The speech was given in a hotel ballroom not far from Wall Street, and it was meant for the investors and analysts who did business just a few blocks away. That was a failure of engineering. And its market value had increased from $3 billion to over $27 billion. That was a failure of training.

Crisis 78

Crisis Hotels Motivation Industry 78

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2020

Indeed is the world's largest and widely used job search engine. The majority of the applicants in this job site are mostly looking for hourly or part-time roles in food service, fitness, hotel cleaning, restaurant, and other related jobs. It has more than 250 million job seekers and counting.

Reputation 80

Reputation Hotels Positioning Industry 80

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He died virtually penniless in a hotel room in New York. But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Although Tesla’s ideas arguably were more brilliant, he was unable to commercialize his ideas.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

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.

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Kenyan groups understand frugal engineering suitable for the local market and are carefully adapting mobile technologies with African flavors. In the hotel where I stayed, I met some U.S. Also, it is a cost-efficient path to enter new markets, especially for embedded systems and educational computer aided design firms.

Market Penetration 10

Market Penetration Marketing Travel Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To help those travelers who feel lonely when they’re on the road, I’ve drawn on my own experience (both in my current gig and in my previous life as a management consultant) as well as the advice of friends and colleagues, including consultants, engineers, media managers, and entrepreneurs, who are regularly away from home.

Travel 8

Travel Hotels Engineering Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

To be clear, all Orbitz users can see the same hotels if they opt to view hotels by price, and Orbitz does not charge different prices for the same room based on what kind of computer you use.

Retail 14

Retail Hotels Price B2B 14

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. Our benefits suck, we have to stay in cheap hotels when we’re on the road, and he took away the daycare, casual Friday, and office parties at Christmas time.”. He paused to gauge my interest, and then continued.

Hotels 150

Hotels Morale Commitment CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It turns out we have a pretty good sense of what’s to come because we know what AirBnB has done to hotels (and homes), Waze to GPS systems and fold-up maps, and Uber to taxis. AirBnB, now used by 50,000 renters each night, is considered to be directly responsible for an estimated $450 million of lost hotel revenue each year.

Health Care 9

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. 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.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

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 "). The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

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 "). The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

In a subsequent 1993 book, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing , they doubled down on their anti-extension advice saying "a line extension ultimate leads to oblivion" and warning that to be successful you have to narrow a brand's focus. Thus, any gain in marketing efficiencies is just not worth the risk.

Trout 13

Trout Ries Brand Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Expedia’s APIs allow people using third-party websites to tap its functionality in order to book flights, cars, and hotels. Then TweekDeck, a third-party developer, built a better user interface on top of the Twitter engine. As a result, it floundered for a while.

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

Let’s look at whether these functions are needed in the car market: Search and discovery: In the same way eBay helps turn one person’s junk into another person’s collectible or AirBnb makes your empty guest room a hotel room, intermediaries can help buyers find sellers. But the car market is no longer like this.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Disintermediation Disaggregation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 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.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Apple has a similar split , with 60% of its 2014 fourth-quarter revenue accounted for by international markets. American companies with strong performance in international markets frequently have a founder or a prominent executive on their team who is either from a foreign country or is a first-generation American.

Company 8

Company Globalization Software Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. In 2012 a hacker built and revealed a simple device that can open Onity-brand electronic locks (which secure over 4 million hotel room doors ) without a key. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats.

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The transformation that started in retailing, music, and movies in the 1990s has now spread to education, financial services, cars and trucks, transportation services, energy and the environment, hotels and lodging, life sciences, all types of manufacturing, and even shipping, to name just a few. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It’s used to design and develop just about any product you can think of, from consumer goods to industrial equipment – or any service or experience ranging from retail customer service interactions to luxury hotel stays. Amazon’s approach of continuous product changes opens new possibilities for sensing and responding to the market.

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But our work with a community of senior executives in the Bay Area suggests that today’s market leaders are following the advice of Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” The market for cardless payments is growing rapidly, posing a threat to Visa’s core business. New tools and strategies.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., Asia into North America).

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

“In all cities and markets and in the countryside,” the Reinheitsgebot reads, “only barley, hops, and water may be used for brewing beer.” But experts think the law was really about protecting markets, not consumers. So in 1999 we reverse-engineered a 2,700-year-old brew.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Library Chemicals Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Indeed, through any one airline, customers can have access to thousands of organizations across a spectrum of businesses such as hotels, rental cars, vacation resorts, cruises, and restaurants. It is now used as the communication engine for Uber, Airbnb, Home Depot, Walmart, and others.

Airlines 8

Airlines Hotels Operations Open-book 8

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, new research from the University of Surrey highlights how robots could be rolled out in the hotel industry as the sector attempts to assure guests that their stay will not compromise social distancing requirements. Digital transformation of healthcare.

Innovation 97

Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 97

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

Hilton (hotel owner) Principle: Make them want to come back. “It It is our theory that when a hotel is in the top-glamour category… you just can’t make it too luxurious. Hilton knew that one hotel is like any other hotel. Hilton knew that one hotel is like any other hotel. You heap it on. So will the world!

Hotels 50

Hotels Advertising Customer Loyalty Follow-up 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

medical-device maker, a planned new heart defibrillator had to be scrapped after five years of expensive effort because the company's quality engineers did not meet federal requirements — due to their inadequate knowledge and skills. For instance, at one U.S.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Hilton (hotel owner) Principle: Make them want to come back. “It It is our theory that when a hotel is in the top-glamour category… you just can’t make it too luxurious. Hilton knew that one hotel is like any other hotel. Hilton knew that one hotel is like any other hotel. You heap it on. So will the world!

Hotels 50

Hotels Customer Loyalty Advertising Benchmarking 50

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. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best. That’s a big topic in its own right.

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8