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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business

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. Need travel information or services?

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Even when the boom in MBA programs coincided with the rise of Marketing as a discipline, Sales was treated like a stepchild at best.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation.

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Experienced Hire from Harvard breaks in to Healthcare Consulting (Part 1)

Management Consulted

I originally applied to two firms: one is called CB Partners, which is a boutique firm in New York focused on market access. I am a recent grad, but I do have a bit of marketing background and I have taken a couple of business courses, so I’m not an extreme novice in every area outside of biology and cancer research.