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.

Operations 8

Operations Hotels Finance Process 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

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. We don''t offer every possible hotel, but we do offer unpublished rates for tens of thousands of the very best. That sets us apart from our competitors.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each time a traveling executive opens spymail, they reveal a wealth of private information — their current location, the time of day they read their email, the hotel at which they are staying. Here’s how: Train for awareness. Here’s how it works. Establish executive travel email protocol.

Travel 8

Travel Execution Hotels Information 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They holed up at the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue and heard from top business school researchers and behavioral psychologists about dangerous cognitive biases. Professions require thoughtful training, and courses designed to tap our human spirits, not our animal ones. Finance Recession'

Banking 8

Banking Reputation Long-term Short-term 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. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century. .”

Education 8

Education Levitt Retail Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Ongoing training and communication, as well as installation of leaders with high integrity, further reinforce a risk culture. the agents made no attempt to conceal their identity despite bringing the women to their hotel rooms; (2.) The "tone from the top" is important for how employees value honesty and integrity.

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

HR managers can use bots to train employees. This might include banks, advocacy groups, travel agencies, hotel companies and more. And it potentially eliminates the need for all intermediaries in most transactions, even those outside finance. We’ll see advanced bots manipulating social media and stocks simultaneously.

Trends 8

Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8