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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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Thinking Like a Consultant: Paralysis by Analysis

Management Consulted

One of the privileges of owning my own consulting business is that I can now always answer that I’m traveling for business and pleasure.) The next morning we got up early to do a real estate signing (it seems we always have to do these when we are not in the location where we are buying). I weighed all the scenarios.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

BCG’s new home, 10 Hudson Yards, is like a city within a city and is considered the largest real estate deal in US history (jaw drop!). PwC’s mothership manages a network of member firms with 83 offices across the US. PwC, another shining star in NYC, is headquartered in New York at 300 Madison Avenue.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: One Last Hurrah for Her

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Its much easier to pick up a real estate agent at the hotel bar than try to convince the much-hounded hotties of IT they should bed down with you! But one of the local managers had a friend whod just retired from a lower VP of HR role at a respected company, so they brought her in for one last hurrah as a consultant.

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