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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. Sure, maybe you have gone to a few conferences or travelled to your company’s annual meeting, but once you begin a consulting career you will be on the road much more frequently than before.

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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!). A second, 90-story office tower, 30 Hudson Yards, is also almost fully booked and will serve as the new corporate headquarters for Time Warner and KKR.

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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! Instead, we all settled on the back tables at the hotel bar, watching baseball before we kicked off our new project. Monday, April 8, 2013. One Last Hurrah for Her. insanity.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: TOTALLY Random

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

I would first like to thank the writers of this blog by sharing information, a few years ago I read a book called Real Estate Investment costa rica in this book deal with questions like this one. February 1, 2010 at 9:51 PM. greetings to all. July 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM. firstly I would like to send greetings to all readers. consulting.