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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are transitioning into consulting from school or a job in industry or government, you will likely begin traveling more than ever. In this article, we will explore a variety of rewards you might be able to gain on airlines, hotels, rental cars, and credit cards. Like airlines, the best plan is to pick one hotel and stick with it.

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Lifestyle Brands Are Building Hotels Now. Here’s Why That Actually Makes Sense.

Harvard Business

.” All three examples appeared in a recent article in the New York Times , which both chronicled and raised a skeptical eyebrow about the commitment of so many brands, in some pretty prosaic industries, to becoming lifestyle brands. I didn’t get a room (the hotel was sold out), but I got an interesting lesson in marketing.

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5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant

Management Consulted

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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How to Stay in Premium Hotels Without Blowing Your Expense Account

Harvard Business

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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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

That is, understanding key players in the industry who provide similar offerings to the same group of customers. Thus, Southwest must keep an eye on both the airline industry as well as automobile transportation. For example, the hotel industry was disrupted by Airbnb , which achieved product-market fit soon after launch.

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5 Reasons Why Consulting Jobs are Not As Glamorous As Advertised

Tom Spencer

You get the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment surrounding yourself with smart people and learning about business problems in a variety of industries. Sure, you may be flying business class and staying at some of the finest hotels. It is not difficult to see why the job is so attractive to young overachievers.

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Case Study: Should a Hotel Giant Eliminate Some Brands and Refocus?

Harvard Business

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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