Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Warren Buffett got burned with an airline investment in the 1990s. airlines, taking a 4.16% stake in American Airlines, smaller stakes in United and Delta, and an undisclosed stake in Southwest Airlines. airlines had one thing in common: their largest investors. billion in the four largest U.S.

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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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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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Rick Conlow

MARCH 22, 2023

I travel often. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. A superior customer experience is rare. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. The poor examples outnumber the good.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2014

Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Lufthansa cut the number of flights. billion in airline-ticket revenue because of strict currency controls, carriers have slashed service to Venezuela by half since January, adding another layer of frustration to daily life here. Every day, the cost of a plane ticket out of Venezuela goes up.

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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. Pricing strategy is not one-size-fits-all. On one end of the spectrum, the market might be perfectly competitive.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 11, 2019

Example 1: Company A faces profitability issues, please come up with strategies. . 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. Like in these examples.

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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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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

For example, I am writing this post from the airport where Alaska Airlines (the only major airline with a hub in Seattle) had a computer system outage. as do all the customer service employees at Alaska who are having to apologize to thousands of travelers. This was the topic of an Apex Alliance monthly conference call.

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Management Consulted

JULY 15, 2015

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For discussion, please see Stock Buybacks Peaked With Stock Market in 2007: History About to Repeat? Vinson should not have traveled on a commercial flight, federal health officials said, when she boarded Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 on Monday, en route from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth. What about PEs in the stratosphere?

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian’s announcement that in-flight wi-fi would be free for loyalty members went over with flying colors, drawing hoots and rousing applause. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We We define our business as an experience business.

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MishTalk

JULY 17, 2014

My guess still remains that the Ukrainians (unwittingly) repeated their Siberian Airlines stunt from 2001. Missile Claims Deepen Escalation Fears Please consider Missile Claims Deepen Escalation Fears Little is yet known about who targeted Malaysian airlines jet MH17. Questions Du Jour Is Anyone Telling The Truth? If so, why?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

” As a result, the producers of Hamilton are scrambling to find the right pricing strategy to handle demand. 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. I doubt it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

No strategy is static. 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. Insight Center.

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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. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Sometimes, the mergers affect the nature of competition itself: how firms behave, how markets are structured, and even how rivalries evolve over time. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. Unlocking Energy.

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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.” Marketers have an opportunity to redefine brand roles in every industry.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 13, 2009

The travel, the uncertainty about work, the lack of control over your career, the sacrifice of your personal life, the eating out 4 days a week on an expense account, the distance from actually seeing something done, the relentless pressure to get promoted or be fired. I am a strategy consultant at. all of it just wrecks peoples lives.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Mission Impossible to Stop Capital Flight On January 23, in Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line I commented. The exchange rate for foreign travelers was just set to 11.36 The black market exchange rate is 79 Bolivars per dollar.

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Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line. No strategy is static. Insight Center.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Foreign government networks”, “airlines”, “energy companies” – like Petrobras - and “financial organisations.”. No one is supposed to see what travels through it. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Results - what do we find?”

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

like restaurants, travel and hotels. 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. Other travel is up as well. If price of airline tickets drop will people stop flying?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Anyone traveling from ebola hotspots in Africa, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to select US airports will get special screening and have their temperatures. Twenty percent of respondents opposed a travel ban, and the rest said they didn’t know. Elboa Treatment The Financial Times reports Chinese Company Develops Ebola Treatment.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 30, 2016

American Airlines doesn't know what to say. Some things worth remembering: Ads can still work, especially ads with consistent budgets, excellent copywriting, smart frequency and a thoughtful strategy. And the key part of a great service-based product is service, which is totally up to you, the marketer. Easier said than done.

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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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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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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. No strategy is static. Amazon.com debuted as an online bookstore in 1994.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

DECEMBER 18, 2012

marketing strategy, supply chain), industry, and file. Check out Flevy.com ( [link] ) for documents that can be leveraged. In fact, Flevy is a marketplace. for consulting-type business documents. Its organized by business. function (e.g. And, of course, any documents purchased are expensed back to the. Oh, and dont forget.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. Do you think the best way to get the cheapest plane tickets is by calling the airline? Maybe you hope to find cheap airfare in the local newspaper's travel section. Understand how prices are set by airlines! Airlines call this "yield management."

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