Business Consulting Agency

JULY 8, 2025

Consider partnerships with luxury hotels, restaurants, and service providers nearby. Offer hotel guests personalized shopping sessions or coordinate exclusive perks for select partner clients. Offer private pickup from hotels or coordination with travel concierges. Provide language support in-store or online.

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Retail Sales How To Hotels 52

Consultants Mind

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Excel and PowerPoint, the tools of the trade, Making sure the data is clean, and the story’s conveyed, From the boardroom to the hotel, the work never stops, It’s a way of life, that’s just how it rocks.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2025

In the ballroom of the swanky Loews Hotel in Miami Beach, Dimon got on stage in front of hundreds of clients in February to talk about the boom in unregulated lending to highly indebted companies. His plan: swoop in strategically and profit if there’s a meltdown.

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Banking Financial Guidelines Policies 45

Buzzsprout

JUNE 3, 2025

It's a dynamic mic that rejects a lot of background noise, so you can get a great recording at home, in a hotel, or in your closet. We bought our first Q2Us for Buzzsprout in 2014, and I can't remember a single one breaking. It has USB and XLR outputs, so you can plug it directly into your computer or use an audio interface.

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Software Wireless Interviews Hotels 66

Buzzsprout

JUNE 3, 2025

It's a dynamic microphone that rejects a lot of background noise, so you can get a high-quality recording at home, in a hotel, or in your closet. We bought our first Q2Us for Buzzsprout in 2014, and I can't remember a single one breaking. It comes with a mic stand, a windscreen, cables, and it still only costs ~$70.

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Software Wireless Interviews Hotels 52

MishTalk

JULY 6, 2025

That’s what woke me up in my NYC hotel. Absent those numbers, said statement is not based on evidence but conjecture. 0 0 Reply Hide Show Derecho 2 hours ago Reply to Jennifer Scuteri NYC + EVs = Mayberry RFD. What about all the emergency vehicles wailing in the middle of the night?

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Insurance Insurance Engineering Sales 82

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These techniques have been used to convince more citizens to apply for tax benefits and more franchised hotels to use a new algorithmic pricing system, among other examples. Organizations can find ways to improve the take-up rates of products and programs by utilizing concepts from behavioral economics.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2024

But the leaders of a handful of companies, including Costco and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, never forget that businesses are complex systems whose elements are interconnected. That gives them the discipline to reject temptations to grow faster than their organizations can sustain.

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Hotels System Company Strategy 251

Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 4, 2014

Union Street Guest House, a hotel in Hudson, New York, is being slammed for a policy they put in place in order to prohibit wedding parties from posting negative online reviews about them. It was meant to be taken down long ago and certainly was never enforced.” ” Are you kidding me? appeared first on Agnes + Day. Case Studies'

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Hotels Case Studies Case Study Policies 97

David A Fields

JANUARY 8, 2019

Are there consultants who love to sleep in impersonal hotel rooms, consume unhealthy food, miss family events and endure flight delays? After all, there are people who love to eat crickets.It doesn’t amaze me that old, storied, brand name consulting firms primarily employ an on-site consulting model. After all, those firms are old.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

Booking a hotel for business travel poses a quandary for many of us. The key is to remember that hotels – as well as most companies – offer what I call “backdoor” discounts. .” In the hotel industry, two popular hurdles are selling packages and employing uncertainty. Package pricing.

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Hotels Travel How To Airlines 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss some of the under-the-radar companies that they think people should be paying more attention to.

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Hotels Engineering Company 132

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. For instance, last year Metis looked at customer sentiment about Parisian luxury hotels. According to Metis’ analysis, guests view Paris’s 5-star hotels as interchangeable.

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Hotels Data Fashion Media 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

So allow me to suggest one radical idea: If you want to build a lifestyle brand, no matter the industry you’re in, consider building a hotel. I didn’t get a room (the hotel was sold out), but I got an interesting lesson in marketing. cities such as Indianapolis; Minneapolis; Savannah, Georgia; and Portland, Maine.

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Hotels Retail Fashion Marketing 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

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Hotels Data Fashion Retail 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Every now and then, firms make mistakes that leave their customers unsatisfied: a restaurant misplaces an order, a hotel’s air conditioning breaks down, or a dry cleaner damages a garment. On TripAdvisor, management responses are common: Roughly one-third of reviews receive a response, and nearly half of all hotels respond to reviews.

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Study Hotels Construction Analysis 130

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries.

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Hotels Case Studies Case Study Study 71

Clarity Consultants

APRIL 30, 2021

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide (now part of Marriott) is one of the world’s leading hotel and leisure companies. Starwood management recognized the value of providing focused, comprehensive training to new hires, who generally have no concept of the company’s brands and related customer service expectations.

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Training Training Hotels Company 130

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

When you are in consulting, you rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles and hotel points, but you dont have a lot of time to manage them. It is still in private beta, but I like what I see and Im using it to manage all of my (and Mrs. Ninjas) frequent flyer, hotel, car, and AMEX accounts. Monday, September 27, 2010. Check it out.

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Consulting Oliver Wyman Management Airlines 147

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

In some cases, travel loyalty program points differ by journey component (flight, car rental, hotel, dining), leading to fragmented point collections. But the number of airline seats and hotel rooms available for redemption in recent years has been limited by near-record occupancy and load factors.

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Travel Balance Sheet Hotels Airlines 134

Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2017

After checking into my hotel in the city center, I took the elevator down 13 floors to the street. The island he lives on is famous for oranges, a fact I knew about as I had visited this island three times before. But when I arrived, I found something I wasn’t expecting. I’ll tell you about that in just a minute.

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Retail ROI Hotels Productivity 268

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. Worldwide, ownership exceeds 100 million units and is projected to reach 225 million by 2020.

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Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 115

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2018

21c Museum Hotels. Some recent picks: Bloomberg article (“ Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women At All Cost “) and Response from Jefferies CEO Richard Handler. The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle (by Leslie Connor). TikTok (phone app). Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter). FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

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Hotels Advertising Video Data 131

Management Consulted

APRIL 21, 2019

Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. While it’s great to rack up points and enjoy nice … Continue Reading.

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Travel Deloitte Consulting Hotels 114

IMC USA

JULY 27, 2012

Click here to watch a video of the hotel.) As I write this, our block of discounted hotel rooms is filling up rapidly so you should register now if you are going to attend. The hotel is strategically situated in the heart of the Downtown Disney Resort and is five miles from Disney-MGM Studios, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Animal Kingdom.

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Hotels Conference Ethics McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. As we were talking, we started thinking that we could really improve the hotel experience, That sort of hit us on the head and we just couldn’t stop thinking about it.

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Hotels Oliver Wyman Travel Recruiting 100

Harvard Business

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. And something was wrong. Our fine dining restaurant was on the brink of losing its hard-won Michelin rating. This has to be done as a group.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 105

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project.

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Operations Leadership Hotels Sports 156

Tom Spencer

MAY 12, 2023

In this article, we will explore a variety of rewards you might be able to gain on airlines, hotels, rental cars, and credit cards. Hotels Staying in hotels goes together with flying, but in some ways there are more options here. You might have to fly to Dallas for work, but there are hundreds of hotels within the city limits.

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Travel Hotels Airlines Consulting 88

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Marriott, for example, uses digital technology to streamline the hotel experience for its consumers, particularly its high-value business travelers. Keyless room entry through mobile devices and bill payment via Apple Pay further reduce the friction associated with a traditional hotel experience.

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Trends Hotels How To Retail 125

Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2019

It used to be that a consultant could wrack up thousands of reward points a year on airline tickets alone, not to mention hotels, ground transportation, and food. Consulting firm credit card use is changing. Credit card reward points are … Continue Reading.

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Hotels Transportation Airlines Consulting 100

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MAY 26, 2020

Keith Ferrazzi is a two-time New York Times best selling author, Harvard Business School graduate, and the former youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company at Starlight Hotels.

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Hotels Airlines How To Leadership 98

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MAY 30, 2014

We’ve already established that airlines, hotels and the like really want people like me to expense our way through their wares. Most hotels offer status-based floors and lounges , but they rarely keep the riffraff out in practice. Here are some ideas: Hotels should offer programs to “walk” elite guests to nicer properties.

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Travel Hotels Airlines Enterprise 71

Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 11, 2014

Last week I wrote about the Hotel that had a policy where they would fine newlyweds $500 for negative online reviews , whether written by the newlyweds or by any of their wedding guests. (If The hotel’s (ludicrous) policy was posted to their website last year, yet it only went viral against them last week.

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Case Studies Case Study Hotels Policies 92

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. Luxury customers, whether they’re buying automobiles, or jewelry, or hotel suites, want to feel special.

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Hotels Data Film Fashion 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

Horst Schulze, cofounder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, started out cleaning ashtrays as a busboy before working his way up through some of the world’s best hotels and becoming COO of Ritz-Carlton and later CEO of Capella Hotel Group.

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Hotels Groups Company Leadership 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

Show up earlier to the airport than you’re used to, so you can pump before you take off, and reserve early check-ins at your hotels to facilitate pumping on arrival. Call your hotel in advance and ask about refrigeration options. The parents I talked to offered some other hard-won tips: Be early to everything.

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Travel Hotels Transportation Policies 124