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...In 1996, father and son began buying up struggling motels in the neighbourhood for a few million dollars apiece, starting with The Thunderbird....
...Thirtysomething lawyer Harper (Aubrey Plaza) walks around the gilded resort with all the enthusiasm of someone about to bed down at a flea-ridden motel....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 3 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...It felt like deja vu as the largest real estate investor in the world had, over the past 18 years, twice previously acquired, and then flipped the company that effectively is an apartment building and motel...
...Around lunchtime on Saturday, May 9 2015, the motel’s staff opened the doors to their rooms and found them dead....
...The company’s last set of quarterly results were about as popular as a roach-infested motel. Costs rose, profits fell and the company forecast for full year ebitda growth was cut....
...I stayed at the Thunderbird, the hiply renovated roadside motel, and slept poorly on a beautiful platform bed – not because of the design, but rather the mile-long freight trains that passed by throughout...
...Mr Laguarta, who becomes the company’s sixth chief executive in its 53-year history, has an MBA from Barcelona’s Esade Business School and a masters in international management from the Thunderbird School...
...A+E specialises in reality fare such as Duck Dynasty, but also produces drama series such as Bates Motel....
...Eventually a local picked them up in his truck and drove them to a local motel, where they spent the night....
...Highway patrols have warned of traffic jams on back roads, motels in obscure hamlets are booked solid and online vendors have exhausted supplies of safety eyewear....
...In ITV’s Thunderbirds Are Go, a CGI reboot of Gerry Anderson’s 1960s puppet series, Lady Penelope is chauffeured by Parker in FAB 1, a wonderful Rolls capable of seamless flight....
...His parents ran a restaurant and rented out roadside cabins, until the death of his father — without life insurance — left his mother and three siblings $250,000 in debt and with a half-completed motel....
...Tied into a CGI reboot of the sci-fi series, this latest incarnation of the base has added “interactive” elements such as moving parts that open hanger doors for the Thunderbird spacecraft to launch....
...Google has found a clever way to maintain its relevance on mobile, Airbus has a Thunderbird 2 idea for planes in years to come, Opendesk has figured out your smart desk for the future....
...Here’s a list of 10 random questions that I frequently wondered about prior to business school, and their very brief and simple answers which I acquired from studying at Thunderbird. 1) Why the heck does...
...“I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels,” says JB. “We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels....
...Thunderbird GMBA students know this routine very well, since we only get to see each other for 25 per cent of our blended programme and we cherish the moments when we meet....
...To make ends meet, the eldest son put in shifts around the motel and later, as a teenager, drove trucks for Coca-Cola....
...In a further twist to the saga, the Thunderbird Independent Alumni Association (TIAA), which was set up to oppose the Laureate deal, also announced this week that the Thunderbird board had rejected its bid...
...“The idea of Thunderbird doing a JV with a for profit education institution is fine by me,” says Adam Nilsen, who graduated from Thunderbird in December....
...A&E specialises in reality fare such as Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars and Epic Ink, but also produces drama series like Bates Motel....
...But at Thunderbird, in Arizona, all the accepted wisdom has been thrown out of the window....
...Larry Penley, president of Thunderbird, told the FT in July 2013 that Thunderbird needed the Laureate partnership to help the school maintain its reputation as one of the top global business schools, by...
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