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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015.

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Bulger Partners – Strategy Consulting for the Software Economy

Management Consulted

Founded in 2012, headquartered in Boston, and already turning down three projects for every one it accepts, the firm has experienced exponential growth in its first five years of existence. Bulger Partners really got off the ground in 2012, and was the brainchild of Founder and Managing Partner Chris Bulger. Marketing and Ad Tech.

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L.E.K. Strategy Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

managed to establish themselves in the market and grew into a global firm with 1000+ employees and 21 offices. Marketing & Sales. Aviation & Travel. are the amount of responsibility Consultant level hires are given from the get go and the low amount of travel their employees do. would have failed. Practice Areas.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. 1 in interim management, No.

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Consulting in Mongolia- a Personal Journey

Effective Managers

I first learnt about the Institute of Consulting in 2012, when over 24 Mongolian consultants received core consultancy skills training from John Moore of Exponential Training and ICUK. As Mongolia transitioned to a market economy, many donor countries helped in this transition by subsidising all kinds of training programmes.

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Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line

MishTalk

The exchange rate for foreign travelers was just set to is 11.36 The black market exchange rate is 79 Bolivars per dollar. Please consider Venezuela Bonds Plunge After Bolivar Weakened for Travel. billion last year to finance travel, airlines and remittances, 19 percent more than in 2012, according to Ramirez.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I majored in Economics and Computer Science, and graduated in 2012. The travel ecosphere is one that consultants are very familiar with. Yeah, definitely.

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