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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

I stumbled through a few consumer report roundups online, asked the advice of friends and coworkers, and eventually found myself at a local hardware store, where the owner enlightened me to the complex world of BTUs, replaceable filters, and square footage calculations. Handi shop customers had never seen a product like ours.

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??Numbers to Know to Sell Tickets in 2023: 60, 30, 2.5B, and More.

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Next week, we look at the numbers that can help you create more sales opportunities in 2023. A Sneak Preview: A few of the ideas I’ll share with you on next week’s webinar: 2023 projects to see a 30% increase in international travel. That’s alarming when you think about MLB’s decline in reported attendance since 2007.

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

I travel often. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. A Superior Customer Experience Pays I receive the American Customer Satisfaction Indexes (ACSI) monthly reports. Research shows us that the top service companies have higher sales growth and profits over time. Do they care?

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What Do Consultants Do Each Day?

Tom Spencer

Consultants work on projects of varying lengths, and are often required to travel to work on site with the client. Projects typically follow a predictable cycle which involves five stages: pitching, hypothesis generation, research and analysis, reporting, and implementation. Hypothesis Generation. Implementation.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. People in the “sales and trading” division buy and sell financial products. Sales people communicate with investors to sell financial products.

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Examples of Concluding Your Case Interview (Part II)

Tom Spencer

“The question we’re trying to answer is whether our client should enter the European market for dental floss and we’ve done a bunch of analysis throughout the case. Here’s what we found: The market for dental floss in Europe is quite large, it’s at $400M annually already. Great Conclusion. They’ll be starting with a big leg up.