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Consolidation in Europe’s Airline Industry

BCG

Over the past 15 years, Europe’s full-service airlines have flown through turbulent skies as they generally failed to adapt to an increasingly price-competitive short-haul market. The financial, regulatory, and political barriers to various strategic scenarios will determine the exact nature of each airline’s options.

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

Harvard Business

Why is the airline industry so terrible? Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. Which brings us back to the airline industry. Finally, they would take over the international air travel market.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. But wouldnt that be a better market result than letting the sick banks keep their share? I am a strategy consultant at. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. April 1, 2009 at 1:44 AM.

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The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Consultant Ninja: Health Care is Not a Right: Management.

Consultant Ninja

lawsuits, FDA policy, patent protections (longer or shorter), drug re purposing, marketing, etc.) The pharma piece (your #2) is a very difficult, but interesting business problem--How to reign in costs without dampening investment in important R&D, or without causing leading firms to completely exit in favor of friendlier markets?

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Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.

Consultant Ninja

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. Question: In the Obama plan, which one of these three cost drivers is getting reversed?

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3 Ways Companies can Reset—and Win—at Customer Loyalty

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Brands are finding out for themselves as they look to adapt to markets and customer behaviors that have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. As companies reshape their business strategies, here are 3 predictions for the evolution of customer loyalty. Relevance will be redefined. To keep customers loyal, brands need to be relevant.

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