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Repositioning Is Not a New Business Model

Harvard Business

We see positioning in the airline industry. Australia, for instance, has three main domestic airlines: Qantas, Jetstar (Qantas’s no-frills line), and Virgin, which started out as no-frills and has since chased the business-class, high-margin segment. That’s not the story in the clothing industry.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

We focused on nine common types of corporate litigation: antitrust, employment civil rights, contract, environmental, intellectual property, labor, personal injury, product liability, and securities. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Commenting on popular blog articles in your industry. Are there any online events in your industry that could work? Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ?

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.-bound businesses each year through economic and industrial espionage. Since the U.S.