MishTalk

AUGUST 5, 2014

The sanctions retaliation game took another big leap forward today with the EU in the spotlight: Moscow May Force European Airlines to Fly Around Russia. At the height of the Cold War, most Western airlines were barred from flying through Russian airspace to Asian cities, and instead had to operate via the Gulf or the U.S.

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Airlines Tourism Transportation Operations 76

Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy. Instead, it depends on valuable information collected from suppliers and customers and evolving market dynamics.

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Productivity Sales Marketing Strategy 158

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

United Airlines has leapt into a brand disaster of mythic proportions. The company’s stock lost hundreds of millions of market cap , but the damage to the brand (and future sales) may be far higher. United (and its airline peers) had better wake up fast to this new reality as well. Three themes seem critical.

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Airlines Video Operations Policies 46

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Productivity Company Engineering Sales 28

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement. In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. Additional areas of expertise include new financial services channels, technologies and markets, retail financial services, and e-business.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 83

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.

Airlines 28

Airlines Industry Operations Sales 28

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. Momentum’s vision is to become the leading independent consultancy in Australia providing the highest quality consulting services which integrate three key elements of organisational change: strategy, operations and people. Port Jackson Partners.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

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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Company Airlines Industry Automotive 28

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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Travel Industry Hotels Airlines 32

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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Examples Hotels Airlines Company 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. In a future dominated by autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing schemes, a typical family might decide to own fewer cars or none at all — meaning lower unit sales, all else equal.

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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

declines in comparable store sales in November and December, resulting in 10% and 15% stock price drops, respectively. A one-price-fits-all-channels mandate can result in a disadvantage in one market. of all retail sales. Well, the news for retailers keeps getting worse. Macy’s and Kohl’s both reported 2.1%

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Retail Sales Airlines Operations 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. .

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Is anyone responsible for ensuring these projects don’t fall through the cracks, or drop to the bottom of the sales force’s priority list?

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Survey Groups Energy Research 38

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Or, as an airline CEO reflected in a recent conversation with us, “In any company I’ve been in, there haven’t been very many people who are capable of standing back and making the complicated things very simple. “My sales force are the heroes of my business,” the CEO of one consumer goods company told us.

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Sales Energy Company Strategy 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

The soaring Swiss franc that caused howls in financial markets is creating a bonanza in stores, where shoppers are suddenly getting discounts on everything from vegetables to party dresses. TUI Suisse, one of Switzerland’s biggest tour operators, cut prices by 15% on vacation packages to sunny destinations around Mediterranean Sea.

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Banking Travel Hotels Retail 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

However, when the war was over, the abundance of used military planes inundated the commercial market and sent many aircraft producing companies into financial tailspins. Boeing, however, changed course and began building home furnishings and boats to counteract its lack of aviation sales.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. Improved pricing.

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Data Advertising Operations Case Study 49

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. The software, called Personal Book , allows Nordstrom to promote sales, special appearances, and store events in a more targeted manner.

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Software Company Intellectual Property Airlines 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

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Data Media Guidelines Travel 28

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

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. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

When Amazon decided to enter the Indian e-commerce market, it was clear from the outset that something would have to give. A decade into the new millennium, India, with its billion-plus people and largely untapped e-commerce market, beckoned. And store owners report increased sales of their own while customers are on-site.

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Retail Productivity Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

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