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Case Study: Should a Hotelier Invest in a New Kind of Online Travel Agency?

Harvard Business Review

Lotta, who’d joined Ervaring from Marriott two years before, was the first to admit that her new company, with 12 brands operating 5,000 hotels, mainly in Europe, needed help. Gerard nodded toward the front of the room, where Dan Carlson, the CEO of HotelShield, stood at a podium, PowerPoint clicker at the ready.