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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? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027. Other Trends.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

For example, Southwest Airlines competes directly with Delta and American Airlines, but also competes with car travel because of its unique business model. Thus, Southwest must keep an eye on both the airline industry as well as automobile transportation. Another hidden substitute is for the customer to do nothing at all.

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What Nursing Parents Need to Know About Pumping During Work Travel

Harvard Business

But if the new parent’s return involves business travel, and that parent has chosen to nurse, it’s even more complicated. While it’s common for new parents to feel stressed about juggling life at work and home, for a pumping, traveling parent the stress can be heightened. Become a Travel-Logistics Master.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

These challenges forced BioLite to reevaluate our approach and customize our sales methods to a market that demands an entirely different way of doing business. It was a good idea in theory, but ultimately it was too passive as a sales approach: Simply placing our HomeStove on a shelf did not lead to uptake. Here’s the thing.

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Why Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Going back to my milkshake story, can you guess why customers stopped buying milkshakes and why the company’s sales hit rock bottom? of the total milkshake sales were between 7 am to 10 am on weekdays. As a result, it is the responsibility of the company to understand the consumer more than the consumer understands themselves.

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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. Industries. Automotive.

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Study Says by 2030 1/4th of Miles Driven will be Driverless

MishTalk

A convergence of three trends – Ride Sharing, Autonomous Driving, and Vehicle Electrification—will offer big-city dwellers cheap, convenient transportation, transforming the automotive industry, says a report by the Boston Consulting group. Dealers will be less relevant as fleets make up a much bigger portion of sales.

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