Prudent Pedal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In my last post, How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader , I laid out a rubric for managing partners to assess the performance of their marketing leaders. My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. Be a leader.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s. He blamed the industry’s notorious low profitability on the “kamikaze pricing tactics of certain carriers” and vowed to not invest in this “death trap” sector again. The industry was indeed unprofitable for decades.

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Consultant Ninja

APRIL 1, 2009

US Industries in a World of S**t. I was thinking about broken US industries this evening. For some reason, saying an industry is "broken" just doesnt do it justice. Im not sure theres a structural shift in the consulting market. Activity already appears to be picking up in certain industries for specific services.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2019

France Teaches a Lesson in Free Markets (Wall Street Journal) Charles Koch: Tariffs a ‘Cancer,’ Could Lead to Socialism (Newsmax) The Trade War’s Winners Don’t Include Us (Wall Street Journal). His overall theme was it’s not about size but about openness (of markets). In other words, it’s government control of markets.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 3, 2017

American Airlines and United Airlines recently joined Delta in offering passengers a lower-priced option to fly: basic economy. At first blush, it’s difficult to see how a further degradation of airline service can enhance profits and attract customers. Want to save a couple of bucks on your next flight?

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 4, 2020

You can choose to go “with” the change in market demand or go “against” it. As painful as it might be to adapt to major shifts in market demand, it’s the only sustainable path forward. You can go “against” a change in market demand that you don't like only up until the point where you run out of cash. What is still selling?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2013

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. Just this week, two of the largest advertising entities, Omnicom and Publicis, announced a $35.1 billion merger.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 5, 2014

What astonishes me, is how this practice of conducting a risk assessment for each and every PR and marketing campaign – within the campaign’s initial development stages – is still not something that is commonly practiced. Can we potentially cause offence and/or isolate a segment of our market?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

If consumers start turning regularly to smart speakers for their travel needs, they could end up interacting less and less with traditional airline, hotel, and even online travel agency brands. They also may provide airlines, hotel chains, and rental car companies more clout when setting up smart-speaker partnerships.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 1, 2020

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Other times, you have to find where the market has shifted toward. economic history. This is playing “defense.”.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines is known for its strong commitment to servant leadership. As a result, the airline has consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. In summary, these companies serve as excellent examples of how servant leadership applies in various industries and contexts.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. April 1, 2009 at 1:14 AM. Consulting. (88).

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. For over 40 years, Southwest Airlines has been a disruptive force in the airline industry, creating an entirely new category and a record 43 consecutive years of profitability.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. You will have the opportunity to work in a wide variety of practice areas and industries, and the top salaries Bain pays will go a lot further in the Middle East than they would in the U.S.,

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 1, 2020

Now, let me elaborate on why, despite coronavirus, a drastic drop in many consumer sectors, and stock market values plummeting, I don’t think we will have another Great Depression. In the case of the Great Depression, Black Monday 1987, and the Great Recession of 2008, the assets in question were stock market prices.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 6, 2014

The first is industry attractiveness, which is determined in any industry by the five competitive forces : the threat of entry by new competitors, the threat of substitutes, the bargaining power of buyers, the bargaining power of suppliers, and the rivalry among existing firms. Figure 2: Three Generic Strategies.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

In consumer markets, demand is usually expressed not for a single individual but for an entire marketplace. Most case interviews you will see do not involve consumer markets. In industrial markets, demand (particularly in cases) is listed by individual buyer. The perfect example of this is the airline industry.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2013

Instead, we’re exposing the “real world of consulting” to help you cut through firms’ marketing pitches so you can see the day-to-day difference and long-term impact of your work in both consulting fields. In financial advisory consulting, consultants go very deep in one industry. The main problem?

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

Example 2: Carlsberg wants to enter the Italian market shall they do this? Hypothesis 1 – Carlsberg should enter the Italian market. Hypothesis 1.1 – The Italian market is attractive. Hypothesis 1.3 – Carlsberg has the capability to enter the market. Hypothesis 1.1.1 - The industry is attractive .

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 24, 2016

An article by the Guardian last Friday repeated the sentiment with a suggestion that low oil prices could hurt the stock market. Since these firms are large, falling profits will lead to lower share prices which in turn will pull down the market index and lead to a drop in the overall market.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

Using data from Twitter (where one of us works), we designed an experiment to study customer service interactions in two industries that generate a significant number of customer service complaints: airlines and wireless carriers. from March 2015 to April 2016. We offered a similar exercise for wireless service customers.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

We were recently doing due diligence for a private equity client on a heavy industrial manufacturer they were considering buying. Their growth, however, basically lined up with the overall market they competed in. All those global economic indicators in the last year have reversed direction. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Entering a New Market. Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. Estimate the size of the global market. What can we do about it?

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Actionable data helps a company resolve issues faster, especially in today’s market beaming with customers as connected as millennials are. It surely helps avoid cumbersome and complicated market research tools. This immediately creates room to enhance the customer experience. The goal for NPS is about the future.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Armed with a hypothesis that the stock market was undervaluing digital, we sought to create the largest known repository of digital data on U.S. Perhaps not surprisingly, American Airlines leads in magnitude for U.S. airlines — but not by as much as you would think. market but a 22% digital share of the U.S.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

"The volatility of and increases in crude oil prices, a weakening economic environment and a highly competitive industry with excess capacity have created an extremely challenging environment for the Company. billion during the year ended December 31, 2008. " - United Airlines 2008 10-K, 2 March 2009. Wednesday, March 4, 2009.

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1 to 1

JULY 20, 2020

Businesses in every industry are continuing to deal with the effects of COVID-19. customers across 250 brands and 14 industries from January through March. Organizations that led their industry in 2020 were: Airlines: Southwest Airlines (73.5) Auto manufacturers (mass market): Subaru (76.6)

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1 to 1

MARCH 4, 2014

The promise of providing the right customer with the right messaging at the right time has long been sought after by marketers. Recently, automotive dealers, airlines, and companies in other industries have begun testing out new applications for geo-location that are broadening opportunities for engaging with customers.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Please consider Further Airline Problems are Brewing at UPS. The Teamsters have also ended talks with the airline and called a strike. However, airline industry contracts often take multiple years to complete. law that governs airline contract talks]. law that governs airline contract talks]. family pays.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

Boeing is an American multinational corporation based in Chicago, Illinois that is known for revolutionizing the aerospace and defense industries. Let’s be honest, keeping a company at the forefront of its industry for a century is pretty impressive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

Yet the unfortunate side effect of uncompetitive markets is that consumers pay higher prices. Index funds have given millions of people relatively low-cost access to the stock market. Banking is not the only industry in which common ownership causes higher prices. These schemes handed their investors huge profits.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

I’ve learned that truth from 40 years of conducting research in the fields of services marketing, service quality, and health services. More hospitals are using checklists to remind clinicians of essential patient-safety steps before doing medical procedures, a practice borrowed from the aviation industry. Use realistic slogans.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

We can still see the “brand as object” model in the American Marketing Association’s definition : “Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers.” A brand started out as an identifying mark.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2021

Companies that differentiate themselves from the pack create a competitive advantage and improve their ability to make smart choices about how to market, price, prospect, sell, win deals, serve clients, and allocate resources. Buyers always like to get more for less whenever possible.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. Many industries have experienced disruption, due to technologies that successfully reduced inefficiencies and frictions, often disintermediating established players in the process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton , unabashedly explained that he has a fiduciary responsibility to investors to boost prices since the market has demonstrated that tickets were underpriced. Think of each performance as an individual airline flight — prices are optimized for each show time. I doubt it.

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