Not quite. It'll be a while before you throw the specs for your major events into the ether, choose a property, negotiate a contract, and make all your room reservations with nary a fax or phone call. But the big...
How much does stress affect your life and work? What roles do diet and exercise play? Renowned psychoneuro-immunologist Dr. Nick Hall will help meeting attendees answer those questions through activities and seminars...
Berlin Reborn Early in this century, Berlin's Potsdamer Platz was among the liveliest squares in Europe. Some 50 years later it was a desolate space between East and West Berlin, destroyed in World War II and watched...
STARWOOD SUCCESS FORMULA Juergen Bartels, CEO, Hotel Group, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, met with Boston-area press representatives in August, laying out the keys to Starwood's future success: renovation and...
Bonnie Beattie, recently retired as manager, meetings and conventions, for Equitable Life of Iowa, has been spending a lot of time in the hospital. Not as a patient, but as one half of a team going from bed to bed...
MARRIOTT UPENDS SALES STRATEGY Here's the challenge when you're as big as Marriott: How do you continue as a growth company while increasing your focus on the customer? Reconciling these seemingly opposing goals is at...
"I'm fascinated with the realignment of the entire delivery system of every service known to mankind," says Gary Schulte. "Everything is point-and-click." After 23 years in the insurance...
The ballroom is buzzing at a Marriott hotel off a highway outside Newark, N.J. On this warm December day, more than 200 Prudential employees are putting their heads together to discuss the changing world of financial...
You've got a pile of meetings on your plate and suddenly you're faced with finding space for a management conference only three months out. Then you get a call from a site selection company representative. It's...
