Merging Competitors: U.S. Airways and American Airlines
Harvard Business
APRIL 10, 2024
If you’re navigating a merger, this episode is for you.
Airlines Government Strategy 
Consultant Ninja: Thee Sunbeam method of Government Stimulus.
Consultant Ninja
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
Thee Sunbeam method of Government Stimulus. I am a strategy consultant at. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Friday, September 25, 2009. Older Post.
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TCIP #016 – Malaysia Airlines Crisis Management with Jonathan Hemus
Melissa Agnes
SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
Malaysia Airlines has suffered through two devastating and traumatic crises this year. These are two major crises, ultimate nightmares for any airline, and Malaysia Airlines faced both within months from one another. How culture, both organizational and national, impacted Malaysia Airlines’s crisis communication.
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84 Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line
MishTalk
JANUARY 23, 2014
In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. However, following still more government restrictions on Venezuelan currency (known as Bolivars), some flights to and from Caracas were suspended today. One airline cancelled all flights. Maduro’s government sold $8.6
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How to Lead through a Merger: US Airways and American Airlines
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
How did CEO Doug Parker successfully merge US Airways and American Airlines?
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A Look at Malaysia Airlines’s Crisis Communications During the Crisis of Flight MH370
Melissa Agnes
MARCH 13, 2014
By now, we’ve all heard of the terrible crisis Malaysia Airlines is facing with flight MH370 appearing to have vanished out of thin air with over 200 passengers and crew members aboard. It’s an unthinkable situation, though one that every airline needs to be prepared to properly manage at any given time.
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Consultant Ninja: Consultants = Big Strategy, Little Execution. Client.
Consultant Ninja
JUNE 26, 2009
Consultants = Big Strategy, Little Execution. Client Needs = Little Strategy, Big Execution. But rarely at a strategy consulting firm do we help the client to execute. My response was that if the strategies arent implemented, its a worthless strategy, and thats our fault. Friday, June 26, 2009. at 9:53 AM.
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French Airline Pilots Call Month Long Strike in May to Protest Law Prohibiting Pilot Strikes
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
The French airline union, SNPL, has called for a month-long strike beginning in May. It''s main objective is to repeal the Diard Law which limits the right of airline pilots to strike. Via translation from Les Echos : An unprecedented month-long strike is the motto launched today by SNPL, the main union of French airline pilots.
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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013
Tom Spencer
JULY 22, 2013
List of Global Strategy Firms in 2013. BELOW is a hand-picked list of leading Global Strategy Firms. Maybe not, but seeing as Sydney is at the other end of the earth you would expect a truly global strategy firm to have an office there (if you want to see a list of purely Aussie strategy firms for 2013, click here ).
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Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Over the years, governance has attempted to close that gap by aligning incentives with measures of performance. Over the last 30 years, the private equity model has risen to the fore as a solution to the governance problem. The great strength of the classic private equity model is the clear-sighted medium-term focus on strategy.
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70 Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East
Management Consulted
APRIL 2, 2017
Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go!
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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney
Tom Spencer
MAY 15, 2014
The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. This list will be of interest to you if you live in Sydney (or you would like to live in Sydney), and: you want to become a strategy consultant, or. Pacific Strategy Partners. Source: Flickr ).
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Consultant Ninja: Pity the Poor Honduran Army: Management.
Consultant Ninja
JULY 7, 2009
In Rich countries (US, UK, Italy, France), I support the government. I am a strategy consultant at. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Older Post.
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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
For example, a recently proposed Indian government policy on e-commerce and a similar order from the country’s central bank seeks to prohibit data on Indian e-commerce consumers from being stored outside India. Both China and India have governments deeply engaged in orchestrating the digital economy and in citizens’ data.
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Consultant Ninja: Signs of Crunch Time: Management Consulting Blog
Consultant Ninja
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I wonder if it has a governer?"] I am a strategy consultant at. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 at 1:31 AM.
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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic
Harvard Business
AUGUST 7, 2018
Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.
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133 Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.
Consultant Ninja
MARCH 31, 2009
The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses. I realize that is a gross simplification, but if the gist is right, it leads me to a simple observation: Why doesnt the government just give long-term loans to the healthy banks (building up their balance sheets) so that they can loan to businesses?
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Consultant Ninja: Health Care is Not a Right: Management.
Consultant Ninja
JULY 31, 2009
First nit: the government, at various levels, does choose to provide services to the public in order to directly or indirectly support rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property (or happiness, if you prefer that version). However, that doesn't mean that the government has to grow food. I am a strategy consultant at.
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100 Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.
Consultant Ninja
JULY 27, 2009
I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. However, I'm puzzled by the logic that government will be able to design an industry organizational structure that is more efficient than the private sector. I am a strategy consultant at.
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Trapped in Venezuela: Looking to Get Out? Good Luck!
MishTalk
AUGUST 27, 2014
Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Lufthansa cut the number of flights. The result is best described as Trapped in Venezuela With the cash-strapped government holding back on releasing $3.8 Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' And you probably can''t.
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76 Free Market Response to Ebola
MishTalk
OCTOBER 17, 2014
Before tackling the free market issue, let''s first review the government''s response to date. Free Market Response It''s 100% certain the free market response would not have been the government''s response to date. Government mandated is not free market by definition. I read a comment that airlines are being greedy.
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57 Video of MH17 Hit by Missile; Update From Jacob Dreizin; Black Box Thoughts
MishTalk
JULY 20, 2014
Hello Mish This whole thing is a mystery of no lesser magnitude than that other Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared in March. How can information like that move so quickly through the government and out to the press? It''d be unwise to say, well, the Russians did it, or the Ukrainian government did it, or the rebels did it."
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78 One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks
Harvard Business
JUNE 13, 2016
While many of these mutual funds follow passive investment strategies, “nothing could be further from the truth” than inferring that they are also passive owners, says Vanguard ’s CEO. That merger led to a significant increase in common ownership between some airlines but not others.
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70 Companies That Do Right by Their Workers Start by Elevating Their Definition of Success
Harvard Business
JANUARY 19, 2018
American Airlines said it would pay $1,000 to all 127,600 of its people, and Wells Fargo raised its base wage from $13.50 ” To be sure, I don’t expect Wal-Mart, American Airlines, or Wells Fargo to transform themselves into U.S. to $15 per hour. Democracy at John Lewis is not a metaphor or a state of mind.
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Crude Plunges Following OPEC Decision to Not Cut Production
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
The plummeting Venezuelan currency breached a new, symbolic low of 100 bolívares per dollar on the black market Friday, according to market-tracking websites, in a sign of the worsening greenback shortage faced by President Nicolás Maduro''s government. I suspect it will not be long before Venezuela is forced to halt bond payments.
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77 Consultant Ninja: The Financial Crisis is a Wicked Problem.
Consultant Ninja
APRIL 2, 2009
The current government understands that, I guess. I am a strategy consultant at. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6% It is bigger than rest of U.S,
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The Trend Is Your “Friend”
CaseInterview.com
APRIL 4, 2020
I received a message just now from someone who works in the airline and cruise ship industries. Given that mindset, what do you do if you run an airline or a cruise ship business? It’s certainly one strategy. I have no idea if any of this is true, but you’d better believe that if I ran an airline, I would be looking into it.
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EU Threatens New Sanctions; Russia Responds with Threats on Natural Gas and Airspace Flight Restrictions
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
"If there are sanctions related to the energy sector, or further restrictions on Russia''s financial sector, we will have to respond asymmetrically," he told Russian daily Vedomosti, adding the airlines of "friendly countries" were allowed to fly over Russia. "If This is not the way to go.
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"No Perry Mason Moment": US Intelligence Admits "No Direct Evidence Linking Russia to MH17"
MishTalk
JULY 22, 2014
intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia was responsible for "creating the conditions" that led to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but they offered no evidence of direct Russian government involvement. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'
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Panic Flip-Flop Moves by India Central Bank Fail to Halt Currency Plunge
MishTalk
AUGUST 21, 2013
On Tuesday night the RBI announced that it would purchase Rs80bn ($1.2bn) of long-dated government bonds and take other steps to ease pressures on Indian banks, whose valuations have been badly hit by a series of measures introduced to protect the rupee over the past month. Official Denials. Emphasis mine.
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Why consulting?
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. New ideas and strategies while working on the projects, finding different ways of doing things more effectively; I started feeling enthralled.
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Job Hub: Boeing Jobs and Culture
Management Consulted
APRIL 24, 2016
By adding airmail planes to its fleet, in addition to servicing the rapidly expanding market for commercial airlines, Boeing saw sustained post-war success. government account for nearly 35% of Boeing’s income. Boeing, however, changed course and began building home furnishings and boats to counteract its lack of aviation sales.
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100 You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One
Harvard Business
APRIL 20, 2016
Companies face major risks if they fail to recognize this new platform-driven context and the different economic rules that govern it. Thinking like a software company starts with basic strategy questions: What do you do uniquely well and what do you know how to do that your competitors do not?
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Challenge to Keynesians "Prove Rising Prices Provide an Overall Economic Benefit"
MishTalk
OCTOBER 19, 2014
Sure, those with first access to money benefit (the banks, the already wealthy, and government bodies via taxation). If price of airline tickets drop will people stop flying? Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' But that is at the expense of everyone else.
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How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India
Harvard Business
JULY 20, 2016
No strategy is static. Amazon has contracts with a number of major delivery services in the country, including India Post and cargo airline Blue Dart. The government’s FDI restrictions are designed in part to protect these convenience-store owners. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. When Amazon.in
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UPS Pilots Seek Strike: Union says Salary of $238,000 Not Enough
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Please consider Further Airline Problems are Brewing at UPS. The Teamsters have also ended talks with the airline and called a strike. However, airline industry contracts often take multiple years to complete. law that governs airline contract talks]. law that governs airline contract talks].
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28 Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Magnifying their already large individual power, large asset managers also appear to coordinate many corporate governance activities, including those regarding compensation. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries.
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How the NSA Hacked Google and Yahoo! - Part Two - Man in the Middle - "Flying Pigs", "Hush Puppy"
MishTalk
OCTOBER 30, 2013
However, a top secret presentation dated May 2012 is used by the NSA to train new agents step-by-step how to access and spy upon private computer networks – the internal networks of companies, governments, financial institutions – networks designed precisely to protect information. A few pages ahead, the document lists the results obtained.
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How the Best CEOs Get the Important Work Done
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
It’s tempting, therefore, to view the CEO as primarily a thinker ; someone who mulls and shapes strategy. But the best CEOs know that strategy is just theory unless it’s actually translated into frontline routines―unless the rest of the company actually is executing the strategy.
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70 The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 23, 2016
What distinguished successful from unsuccessful alliances was more of a “productive” irritation — creative tension between differing ideas about how to develop alliance products – reflected in disagreements about the strategy and tactics of how best to develop a particular molecule.
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Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy
Harvard Business
AUGUST 26, 2016
Learning to control their own emotions at the behest of the airline became such second nature to the flight attendants that they began to manage their feelings in their personal lives in a similar fashion. Second, government regulation, either at the state or federal level, is undoubtedly in the cards.
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Create a Culture of Change - Henman Performance
Henman Performance Executive
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
As the senior leader, your job is to build a culture of change, one that supports the long-term strategy of your company. A change in operating practices or strategy does not constitute a desertion of all that is “holy,” but only those organizations that create a true culture of change can help their people understand the difference.
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28 An Agenda for the Future of Global Business
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background. Leverage technology from front to back. Essential background.
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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
China has more than 155,000 SOEs, employing tens of millions of people in all sectors from banks to hotels and airlines to oil refiners. The government will then “actively introduce different investors” and push SOEs for public share sales, although most analysts believe that wholesale privatisations are highly unlikely.
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