Building Personal Strength

MAY 30, 2010

Hotels on the beach were completely destroyed. The heated-up real estate bubble seemed ready to burst at any time. Then, a couple weeks later, another direct hit by Category 3 Hurricane Jeanne. All I can say is, it’s amazing how adverse life can be sometimes. I could also say, “It could have sucked worse.” We were “lucky.”

Real Estate 92

Real Estate Hotels Analysis Price 92

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

lies [in] the divergence of compensation for similar workers among establishments and firms,” wrote Freeman in an essay about the difference in how different hotels pay their workers, which he believes illustrates his research. In some ways, though, hotel workers are not the typical case.

Bryson 11

Bryson Hedge Company Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2018

Today, Hyatt Place’s signature scent can be found in almost 300 hotels across the U.S. While packaged goods, hospitality, retail, medicine, real estate, and fitness are some of the obvious industries for employing scent branding, many brands in other industries have benefited from this approach. Ad agency J.

Brand 8

Brand Hotels Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

For example, many leading hotel companies moved to an “asset light” model years ago. In other words, they sold their real estate assets to institutional investors and private wealth funds, and they began to operate as essentially management companies focused on defining a brand proposition, marketing and generating sales.

Hotels 8

Hotels Disintermediation Real Estate Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Leading electronics firms have bartered discontinued stock, placing it in leading hotels in exchange for media and trade credits — gaining a potential new client in the hotel group in the process. Lufthansa has bartered real estate for media credits and aviation fuel.

Hotels 9

Hotels Real Estate Advertising Travel 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Diversify your holdings across stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and other alternatives to reduce your risk exposure to any single asset class. Many retailers, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, transportation providers, and entertainment venues offer special senior discounts, usually starting between the ages of 55 and 65.

Tips 103

Tips Discount Budgeting Real Estate 103

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Realizing that in some instances Citi was wasting resources on office space that no one was using, the division suggested using office-sharing, "hoteling" at satellite offices, and work-from-home arrangements to reduce the organization's real estate portfolio while offering a new type of workspace arrangement.

Real Estate 17

Real Estate Human Resources Hotels Diversity 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

” nodding towards a modern glass tower next to the Mandarin Oriental hotel. The global super-rich who are snapping up real estate in superstar cities aren’t really buying “homes,” in the conventional sense of that term, to live in and use. “Some of the apartments cost £50 million or more.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Creativity Venture Capitalist Class 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

In other words, does it really make sense for a hospitality or real estate company to build a new hotel, apartment, or office complex right on the coast in Miami? A couple of key questions to ponder: Do you, or your suppliers, have significant coastal assets? And what is the risk of devaluation?

Cost 8

Cost Real Estate Depreciation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Adam said he'd been downtown, looking at one of the boutique properties that would be part of the new hotel chain SES was investing in — the company was to be a 33% owner with two other investors. The new business was to be built around an existing string of five urban hotels in Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.

Case Study 11

Case Study Hotels CEO Due Diligence 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Health Care Contingency Plans Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Expedia’s APIs allow people using third-party websites to tap its functionality in order to book flights, cars, and hotels. Similarly, Google did not consider GoogleMaps to be a core asset until a third-party application allowed Google Maps to show real estate locations on a map, causing its popularity to skyrocket.

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

For example, Commune Hotels & Resorts’ purpose (“We are dedicated to creating transformational experiences that inspire the human spirit.” Commune identified ten core values that it measures across interactions with customers, vendors, and real estate partners.

Metrics 8

Metrics Marketing Real Estate CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Offer modern, flexible workspaces that inspire people while reducing overhead and real estate costs. They’ll be operating from home, the field, and project and customer locations, as well as from hotels, airports, and trains.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs. Today, many hotels and restaurants even lack simple feedback forms, and have absolutely no idea how their customers feel. A ‘Training-Heavy’ Strategy. Align Culture and Incentives.

Training 8

Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Similarly, business travel not only provides a healthy proportion of passenger numbers, but a large proportion of airline profits, not to mention the numerous ancillary businesses, from hotels to conference providers, that rely on professionals getting out and about. Shifting sands.

Reis 69

Reis Transportation Real Estate Tourism 69

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2000, Zhangmutou , a small town in South Guangdong, opened a five-star hotel, the first in a town of its type in China. A city's real estate prices usually reflect its attractiveness as a commercial center and its living standards. Eight years later, it was making the headlines for very different reasons.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Hotels Class Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

In a real-estate role-play, the setup was that the buyer was seeking to turn a piece of property into a tourist hotel against the wishes of the seller, who hoped it would be used for residences.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Ethics Hotels Bottom-up 8

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. Nonetheless, I still ask: Why shouldn't the multinational companies that build real estates and mines put a small percentage into African education?

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Education GDP Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

And the industries he’s worked in — construction, real estate, hotels, and resorts — are among the least sophisticated in their use of information technology. Trump knows virtually nothing about technology — other than a smartphone, he doesn’t use it much.

Long-term 8

Long-term Outsourcing Real Estate Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

While the fighting over this religious real estate appears perpetual, Jerusalem can also be a solution. The holy Old City is a matter of faith to so many. It is sacred to both Christians and Jews. For Muslims, only Mecca and Medina are more important spiritual places. billion in revenues for Israel. Indeed, the potential gate is the 3.5

Tourism 12

Tourism Committee Real Estate GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g., food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8