The "killer application" of revenue management: Harrah's Cherokee Casino & Hotel

Interfaces

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-175

  Metters, Richard ^a   Queenan, Carrie ^b   Ferguson, Mark ^c   Harrison, Laura ^d   Higbie, Jon ^e   Ward, Stan ^f   Barfield, Bruce ^g   Farley, Tammy ^g   Kuyumcu, H Ahmet ^g   Duggasani, Amar ^g  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel   (United States)

^e Revenue Analytics   (United States)

^f JDA SOFTWARE   (India)

^g Rainmaker Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Gambling; Hotel motel industry; Linear programming applications; Perishable inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649086582     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1080.0367     Document Type: Article

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