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Management Consulted East Coast Tour – Fall 2015

Management Consulted

We kicked off our busy travel season with our annual East Coast Fall Tour to host events with consulting clubs from the University of Virginia, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Harvard Business School. That wraps up our East Coast Tour recap for the 2015 season.

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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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Traveling for Work? You’re a Prime Target for Hackers

Harvard Business

As if the stresses and headaches of business travel weren’t enough, there’s one more thing to worry about while traveling in unfamiliar places: the security of your email. According to one report , there are 40,000 kidnap-and-ransom cases each year, many of which involve executives on business travel.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027.

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The Secrets of Retail’s Repeat Top Performers

BCG

For the five years from 2011 through 2015, the industry’s performance declined somewhat in both absolute and relative terms. Overall, from 2011 through 2015, the retail companies in our sample returned an annualized TSR of 16% (down from 21% for the five-year period ending in 2014). See Exhibit 1.)

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business

After all, in 2015 Nucor recycled 17 million tons of scrap. Finally, they would take over the international air travel market. The upmarket mechanism is ruthless: either you engage in moving upmarket or you will stagnate. There is no Plan B. Far from bad news, this is actually great for revitalizing industries and benefiting consumers.

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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

It’s an 11-month project for one consultant: $320k in consulting fees and another $100k for travel expenses. January 2015: I email Joe via LinkedIn: Hello Joe, I see you've been in your new job 6 months already. July 2015: Joe changes jobs again, going back to a company where he worked years before. That’s not a typo.