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- March 2006 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
GuestFirst Hotel (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Keywords: Accommodations Industry
- August 2005 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
GuestFirst Hotel (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei
Presents an overview of the statistical analysis covered in the case discussion. View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
- August 2005 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
GuestFirst Hotel (B): Statistics Review with Data Desk (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei
Presents an overview of the statistical analysis covered in the case discussion. View Details
- April 2004
- Teaching Note
The Arts Property and Hotel (TN)
By: Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (9-803-009). View Details
- February 2003
- Case
Whitbread Hotel Company (A)
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Alan Parker has developed an effective organization using organizational fitness profiling and other change methodologies. Parker knows that as Whitbread continues to grow, both internally and through acquisitions, the company will have to change its organization... View Details
- February 2003
- Case
Whitbread Hotel Company (B)
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- December 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Wyndham International: Fostering High-Touch with High-Tech
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gabriele Piccoli
Examines a hotel chain's attempt to use information technology to achieve market dominance and build customer loyalty during a period of global industry decline. View Details
- September 2002 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
The Arts Property and Hotel
By: Arthur I Segel and Ani M Vartanian
Julio Martinez finds himself as one of the owners of the Arts Hotel Project in Barcelona, Spain. The 455-room hotel is managed by the Ritz Carlton and is in a 44-story tower along Barcelona's beachfront. Julio needs to figure out a strategy to maximize his investment,... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Orient-Express Hotels
By: Frances X. Frei and Corey B. Hajim
Describes how a hotel and leisure company provides high-end service through its distinctive hotels and trains. Provides an opportunity to learn about the company's unusual quality practices and puts into doubt the unquestioned use of well-known practices, such as... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Taj Hotel Group
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
R.K. Krishna Kumar, managing director and head of Taj Hotel Group, has to decide whether to reexamine a promotion decision. In an attempt to deliver a level of service quality that met global standards at the Indian hotel chain, Kumar had introduced new personnel... View Details
- January 2002
- Teaching Note
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, The TN
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-601-163). View Details
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
GuestFirst Hotel (A): Customer Loyalty
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Provides a hotel context in which to explore the link between customer loyalty and financial performance, using four years of hotel data. Challenges students to find the extent of the relationship between loyalty and performance. View Details
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
GuestFirst Hotel (B): Taking Advantage of Panel Data
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Accommodations Industry
- March 2001 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, The
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
In just seven days, the Ritz-Carlton transforms newly hired employees into "Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen." The case details a new hotel launch, focusing on the unique blend of leadership, quality processes, and values of self-respect and dignity,... View Details
- October 2000 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Hilton HHonors Worldwide: Loyalty Wars
By: John A. Deighton and Stowe Shoemaker
Hilton Hotels regards the frequent guest program as the industry's most important marketing tool, directing marketing efforts at the heavy user. What is Hilton to do then, when a competitor ups the ante? This case illustrates the economics of frequency marketing in... View Details
- April 2000 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
The Holland House
By: William J. Poorvu and Michael A. Everett-Lane
In November 1993, Edward Geffner, executive director of Project Renewal, Inc. (PRI), is proposing that his not-for-profit firm develop Holland House at 351 West 42nd Street in New York City into a single- room occupancy hotel for homeless people. He has put together a... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Priceline WebHouse Club
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
Priceline empowered consumers to "name their own price" for airline tickets and hotel rooms; then it shopped these offers to marketers. Priceline's founder Jay Walker described the resulting transactions as a new ecosystem, that helped consumers realize lower prices... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Astor Park Hotel
By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel and Matthew C. Lieb
Starwood Hotels, the world's largest REIT, is interested in acquiring an underperforming hotel in the Pacific Northwest. Steve Goldman, Starwood's VP of acquisitions and development, is wondering how much to pay for the property and how to reposition it. View Details
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
Fitzpatrick Hotel Group Series TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-002), (9-298-003), and (9-298-004). View Details
Keywords: Republic of Ireland
- January 1998 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Fitzpatrick Hotel Group (A)
By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely
Examines the issues raised in the financing of the Fitzpatrick Hotel Group, an Irish hotelier. The perspective of Paddy Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO at Fitzpatrick Group, and Niall Carroll, founder of ACT Venture Capital, are contrasted. View Details