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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

For example, Southwest Airlines competes directly with Delta and American Airlines, but also competes with car travel because of its unique business model. Thus, Southwest must keep an eye on both the airline industry as well as automobile transportation. Another hidden substitute is for the customer to do nothing at all.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. Most commercial airlines contain two engines, while cargo planes and some military craft generally require four or more (common engines for these large-scale aerospace vehicles include PW JT9D-7R4G2 engines, GE CF6-80C2B1, or RR RB211-524D4 engines ).

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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. You’ll get to travel”. Though it’s highly likely you’ll travel domestically during your consulting career, it’s less likely you’ll have much control over where you travel (see above) or that you’ll travel internationally.

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

I travel often. When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. Research shows us that the top service companies have higher sales growth and profits over time. A superior customer experience is rare. The poor examples outnumber the good.

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Hamilton’s $849 Tickets Are Priced Too Low

Harvard Business

Advertising like “we’ve dropped our previously bloated fixed prices” to boost sales can taint Hamilton ’s brand. Take a cue from other sellers of perishable products with fixed capacities — industries such as airlines, hotels, and car rentals — and employ dynamic pricing.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Need travel information or services?