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

Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

" | Main | Siena by Car - "You Idiot" » July 11, 2010 Leaders Travel Light I learned it the hard way, really, by dragging bulky bags through crowded bus terminals, onto packed trains, and up stairs at a five-hundred year-old hotel.

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Travel Hotels Commitment Blog 118

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. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. The bad news is that you can't get back the time you spent working on any projects for this client.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

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. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel. The director of finance grumbled that overtime costs were too high, due to high turnover and the fact that employee sick time had spiked.

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Operations Hotels Finance Process 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“You need to be seen as credible” when you’re talking about the financial implications of your initiative to the finance group, for instance. During one of the sessions, they read a case study about a hotel chain that trimmed labor and production costs by ceasing to launder guest sheets every day. ” says Julie.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Your projections for the business should not be wildly optimistic so you can manage your expectations and those of any partners. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Getaroom stands out because it presents a new model for hotel room booking.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth. In the same way, investments in landmark digital projects that significantly enhance customer experience can help launch wider digital transformations. Insight Center.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

For instance, Snapchat’s cofounders, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, started working together on a website for students called Future Freshman, among other projects, while at Stanford University. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9 For example, the Tata Group's sprawling empire has churned out innovative automobiles and hotel formats, reframed the watch industry, and brought innovative IT services to overlooked small and medium businesses.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In my hotel, the TV remote controller was marked in Chinese. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. While attending a UN-sponsored workshop last month in Freetown, Sierra Leone, I noticed an amazing transformation in that country, fuelled primarily by the Chinese.

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Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. achieving public recognition (getting invited to sit on industry panels or writing a book).

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How To Crisis Management Learning Curve Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Luxury hotel brand Melia is joining Accor and Rotana to open the country’s first international five-star hotel, the Gran Melia Ghoo. However, remaining U.S. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

What will happen if one of the projects I’m working on runs into objections? What will happen if the company doesn’t get its financing? What will happen if that presentation fails? What will happen if I don’t have enough time to finish my budget? What will happen if my explanation doesn’t satisfy investors?

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Stress Uncertainty Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Many leading companies, including Wal-Mart , InterContinental Hotels , and many others are already seeing improvements to their bottom line from the solar/battery approach. Investing in such systems today can insulate companies from rising retail prices for grid electricity, eventually saving billions of dollars per year.

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Management Payback Period Energy Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

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.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Even after more than 20 years of implementations, a study by Panorama shows that 53% of ERP projects still run over budget, 61% take longer to complete than anticipated, and more than 27% fail to produce the positive ROI expected. million records), Wyndham Hotels (600,000 credit cards), eHarmony (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. Instead, Nadella was known for listening, learning, and analyzing.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

We think a good start is to assess investors’ preferences across five catagories: Place : Investments in companies or projects that are located in a particular place (or benefit a particular group of people).

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This might include banks, advocacy groups, travel agencies, hotel companies and more. Blockstream and the sidechain projects that follow will turn the blockchain into a universal platform that can be used for anything requiring signatures or authentication. This won’t just affect the usual suspects, such as Facebook and Google.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Although Contect had launched as a specialist in small but steady installation jobs with high margins and low risk, it was now a full-service construction company that did design, construction, lighting, ventilation, water, waste processing, and IT infrastructure for much bigger, more complex projects. Our projects aren’t isolated.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8