HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Malaika Myers: Our industry has evolved and experienced rapid change over the last few years and I’m incredibly proud of the way Hyatt has successfully adapted to this dynamic environment. I have held many Human Resources roles across industries at global companies. What skills do the global HR managers of the future need to acquire?

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Diversity Human Resources Globalization Commitment 69

N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2014

These are people nationwide in all industries, and discovered that a seismic number are miserable in their jobs. On a more optimistic note, there are many great leaders and organizational cultures such as Hyatt Hotels, Charles Schwab, Wegmans Food Markets and many more who have done much to inspire high engagement.

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Short-term Long-term Survey Ethics 407

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Whether you are a potential new business owner or someone who has been in the game for years, you knew how your industry operated before, and you at least had an idea of how to navigate within that system. While some industries may face more frequent and drastic changes, every business needs to adapt sometimes. Change can be daunting.

Insurance 65

Insurance Hotels Parcell Crisis 65

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2020

For just about everyone that works in hotels or restaurants, this is not an option.”. This is especially so in cities where industries such as finance, professional services and corporate management dominate. The nature of work. Areas where sectors such as retail, hospitality and agriculture dominate are not so fortunate.

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Hotels Finance Insurance Retail 105

Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Then apply creative thinking and a knowledge of your industry, technical possibilities and business realities to provide solutions that delight customers. Photo by a colleague of mine at Hexawise in his Japanese hotel room. In many hotels the mirrors in the bathroom are obstructed after a shower. Continue reading →.

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Hotels Software Long-term Cost 53

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 16, 2020

Thinking of starting an industrial laundry business? If you are looking for the best industrial laundry equipment, make sure to check out what Continental Girbau has to offer. If you need help executing successful digital marketing strategies for industrial and commercial laundry businesses, Continental Girbau has the best solutions.

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Industry Strategy Price Marketing Strategy 13

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. But have you thought about the implications of this trend for management practices?

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Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The following season NAIB officials invited Indiana State again, and this time decided they would allow Clarence to play, provided he didn’t stay at the hotel with his teammates and wouldn’t be seen publicly with them. Once again the coach declined. He always said, “You’re as good as anybody, but you’re no better than anybody.”

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles.

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Innovation Govindarajan Short-term Banking 103

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It wasn’t long after Michaels arrival that he was impressing his co-workers by offering $100 to a waitress at the nearby InterContinental Hotel to expose herself. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. The presence of the leader influences the presence of those being led.

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How To Handbook Executive Coaching Case Study 169

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Especially in the tech industry. The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious.

Industry 15

Industry Library Hotels Human Resources 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

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. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. Today GE has once again reinvented itself, as “the digital industrial company” — not bad for an organization founded in 1892.

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Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Company Hotels Business Model Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. Considering the following.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Brands in other industries have realized that even though they may have minimal leverage on paper over parties with which they do business, they must proactively engage them on labor conditions. There are models for how to tackle such difficult challenges — in other industries and within McDonald’s itself.

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Supply Chain Compliance Franchising How To 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. And it does not stop there.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

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. Again this is not the case with the auto-industry.

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Supply Chain Disintermediation Disaggregation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm.

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Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

.” There, in the shadow of Google’s global headquarters, the audience laughed on cue, quickly grokking the embarrassing point: it’s 2016 and this $3 trillion industry that our lives depend upon still relies on faxes, clipboards, and isolated instances of legacy software locked away in hospital basements. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Power Hotels Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Cultivating a larger-than-life presence is helping him grow a communications firm with impact and potential well beyond its size, country, and industry. Acting bigger than you are isn't just impression management. Don't wait to get really big to take over the hotel. Consider Brazilian entrepreneur Nizan Guanaes. Go for the best.

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Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Cultivating a larger-than-life presence is helping him grow a communications firm with impact and potential well beyond its size, country, and industry. Acting bigger than you are isn't just impression management. Don't wait to get really big to take over the hotel. Consider Brazilian entrepreneur Nizan Guanaes. Go for the best.

Hotels 15

Hotels Entrepreneur Advertising Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Christensen and two co-authors revisit where disruption theory stands today in a new HBR article, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Disruptive innovation theory expands your view, increasing the odds that you spot important trends early. Of course, the more places you look, the more things you see. billion versus $2.3

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Levitt Innovation 8

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? The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

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? The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Imagine that you''ve just looked at a really nice hotel on your favorite online travel site, but you haven''t yet booked your trip. Would you be more likely to go back to them and book your vacation if the travel ad had a picture of the specific hotel that you just browsed?

Advertising 8

Advertising Hotels Travel Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings?

Innovation 8

Innovation Licensing Directory Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. However, during the industrial age in the U.S., Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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Education Absenteeism Efficiency Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

London-based OMK makes "prison-worthy" seating, the industry's highest standard, using self-sealing polyurethane that can withstand a stabbing without showing the knife scar. If there is no "best" airport seat, now think about all of the industries in the economy. The best hotel for one customer is not the best for another.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

This year the new mammals and birds of the industry have begun to strut their stuff. Such systems are taking on incumbents in every industry. Airbnb is not only challenging the biggest hotel chains but also challenging the bureaucracy, going after the New York City housing and tax laws that stand it its way.

Marketing 8

Marketing Disintermediation Hotels Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. This begs the question, why? And engagement matters.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 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. Consider the type of business and industry. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Are you counting on advertising to bring in customers?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Each morning at my hotel I received the China Daily , the countrys main English-language newspaper. Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. And on and on. In the U.S.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14