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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Although this represents great progress, electrification still has the Achilles’ heel that current batteries are 50 times less energy dense than jet fuel.

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Inside the Invisible but Influential World of Scent Branding

Harvard Business

Scented environments have been shown to reduce typos made by office workers ; improve the perception of product quality ; increase purchase intent , average unit sales , and duration of a retail visit or stay among consumers; and boost the willingness of consumers to pay more for a product. Steve Lewis Stock/Getty Images. Ad agency J.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. Ernst & Young recently announced completion of a lighting retrofit project in its U.S. headquarters in New York City.

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Leading Digital Transformation Is Like Urban Planning

Harvard Business

Today Dubai also boasts the world’s tallest building, artificial islands, the first hotel with a rain forest, and the largest indoor theme park on earth. Keeping up with digital upstarts that are rewriting the rules of industries, from retail to banking to energy, is one of the biggest management challenges for major corporations today.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Following a dramatic decline in print sales and advertising, some newspapers have reestablished themselves as digital platforms.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Vertical and horizontal expansion – Existing sharing economy services will expand to capture other parts of the sectors in which they already play through developing a broader range of services both horizontally (e.g. The UK’s 'slice of the pie' could be worth around $15bn (or £9bn) in 2025.

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How to Talk to Strangers and Enjoy It

CaseInterview.com

As an experiment, I invited a few dozen CIBs, 1Y, 2Y to a last-minute, impromptu Q&A session in the lobby of my hotel. I was hoping 5 people would show up, but when close to 30 did, the hotel kicked us out. If you want to develop exceptional people skills, you absolutely, positively have to understand how this dynamic works.

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