Case: Harrah’s Entertainment‚ Inc: Rewarding Our People. Strengths and Weaknesses of Harrah’s gain-sharing Program Harrah’s strategy was to shift from service-driven company to a customer-driven company‚ and it invested in people development and bonus rewards. Company has introduced a gain-sharing program where employees were rewarded for improving customer service. This program has required employees to have more interacts with customer such as hand shake “employees can lose
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Case study: Harrah’s Solid Gold CRM for the Service Sector Harrah’s Entertainment provides an example of exceptional data asset leverage in the service sector‚ focusing on how this technology enables world-class service through customer relationship management. Gary Loveman is a sort of management major trifecta. The CEO of Harrah’s Entertainment is a former operations professor who has leveraged information technology to create what may be the most effective marketing organization in the service
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Entertainment for the Hard Times Even during the “Hard Times” and wartime‚ people still needed to be entertained to pass the time and find enjoyment. The people of the 1930’s were no exception. They enjoyed many kinds of entertainment especially if they could do them inexpensively. Some of their favorite pass-times were film‚ radio and print. Film of the 1930’s was labeled “The Golden Age of Hollywood.” Movies were being made with sound and color‚ new genres included gangster‚ musicals‚ news reporting
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Marvel Enterprises Background: Marvel Comics was founded in the late 1930’s with the their first comics appearing in 1939. Up to the time of the case‚ the company had changed owners a few times‚ had ups and downs‚ and had built a large following by providing up to 60 periodicals per month which included comics like: Spiderman‚ Fantastic Four‚ and Iron Man along with about 4‚700 other characters. Decision Dilemna: What business model should Marvel Executives pursue to ensure continued growth?
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World Wrestling Entertainment‚ Inc. Executive Summary With over twenty years of experience in the sports entertainment business and the mergers of some of the leading companies in the wrestling industry‚ Vince McMahon organized the World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.‚ in the late 1970s. The organization consist of an integrated media and entertainment company engaged in the development‚ production and marketing of television and pay-per-view programming‚ live events and the licensing and sale of
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William F. Harrah Daniel Seutter The gaming industry is one of the largest industries in the world. Nowadays people can find casinos and gambling in almost every region in the world. There are gambling locations on cruise ships‚ in airports‚ and even gas stations. The gaming industry has evolved over many years and a lot of it as to do with the help from William F. Harrah. William F. Harrah is the founder of the popular Harrah’s casinos. He is one of the pioneers that helped shape the gaming
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Teradata war house technology and Cognos’s enterprise analysis tools contributed NCR solution. They will provide one of the most powerful solutions available to handle the increasing amount of customer data at the time. The solution will help Harrah understanding of its customers and the activities they enjoy at their properties. Active Enterprise system makes a close loop that interaction with customer. The loop started from the initial visit to collect customer information through any media
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Harrah’s Entertainment‚ Inc : Rewarding Our People -Jeba Nadar - 037 -Sumaira Patel - 039 Business Strategy : To convert product based company to marketing based company Competitive Advantage : Customer loyalty PORTERS ANANLYSIS: 1. Threat from buyer - NA 2. Threat from supplier - NA 3. Threat from substitutes - High 4. Threat from competitors - High New Facilities ‚ Imitating Harrah’s strategy through technological advancement‚ New attractions 5. Threat from new entrants - High
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Synopsis of the Problem Studied A basic problem in the casino industry is determining which reservations to accept and which to deny. The profitability of a customer has little to do with the hotel room and everything to do with the customer’s gambling behavior. Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel‚ is very different from the typical industry structure. Casino profits are used to better the lives of the immediate Cherokee community. Funds are used to support healthcare‚ education‚ and standard
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marketing was done on property basis i.e. different approach was followed for Harrah’s casino in different states. This led to casino working in silo and there was no integration of data Transaction data was not integrated Revenues per dollar for Harrah was very low indicating low brand loyalty amongst their customers Customers were rated only on their observed play which led to loss of high worth customers & loss of revenue Harrah’s was losing customer base to other competitors such as mirage who
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