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Expedia Leadership Changes Show Power Of Travel Industry Disruption

PYMNTS

Barry Diller, chairman of the board, and Peter Kern, vice chairman and director, will oversee the company’s executive leadership team. The startups are targeting millennials around the world, offering services such as amusement park tickets, cooking classes, walking tours and more, focusing mainly on the growing Asian travel market.

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Expedia Leadership Shakeup Shows Power Of Travel Industry Disruption

PYMNTS

Barry Diller, chairman of the board, and Peter Kern, vice chairman and director, will oversee the company’s executive leadership team. The startups are targeting millennials around the world, offering services such as amusement park tickets, cooking classes, walking tours and more, focusing mainly on the growing Asian travel market.

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For Macy’s and Men’s Wearhouse, No Millennial Tux and Tails Tailwind

PYMNTS

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. Now that seems to be true even in fashion.

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Behind BJ’s Digital Double Down

PYMNTS

Plus, the app’s digital gallery has both store-based savings (from the “Big” and “Little” book of savings the brand puts out each month) as well as various manufacturer coupons. And continue to launch them — now under new leadership. A Unified Omnicommerce Focus. BJ’s is the smallest warehouse retail player in the business.

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Is The Recreation Market Ready For A Payments Makeover?

PYMNTS

Nevertheless, while the recreational activities market generates vast sums of revenue, Gauthier said industry organizations can suffer from a leadership vacuum. The lack of payment innovation could increasingly become an issue as more millennials become parents and consider activities for their families. In the U.S.,

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Lindsay LaNore: Creative retainment

Independent Banker

If it takes weeks for an employee to book time off, make that process simpler. If you’re hiring millennials or Gen Zers, remember they want to work for organizations that give back to their communities. If an approval process is like jumping through endless hoops, rethink it. If some processes just take time, be transparent about that.

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MBA Tech 2017: Blockchain, APIs and Robots, Oh My!

William Mills

Rodrigo Lopez, MBA Chairman, and Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolutions LLC and AOL Co-Founder, kicked off the conference discussing Case’s book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. She discussed the future of leadership with findings from the book Women Lead: Career Perspectives from Workplace Leaders.