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?

Airlines 70

Airlines Travel Fashion Productivity 70

MishTalk

JANUARY 23, 2014

In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. One airline cancelled all flights. The black market exchange rate is 79 Bolivars per dollar. Airlines operating in Venezuela fell and one carrier suspended flights. On the currency side, the official exchange rate is 6.3

Airlines 76

Airlines Travel Government Transportation 76

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.

Airlines 134

Airlines Strategy Strategy Strategy& 134

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. But wouldnt that be a better market result than letting the sick banks keep their share? Productivity. (6). Tuesday, March 31, 2009. April 1, 2009 at 1:44 AM. Consultant Ninja.

Balance Sheet 100

Balance Sheet Marketing Banking Consulting 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2013

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. The ‘bargain price’ rationale is also rare since the acquirer typically has to pay target shareholders a takeover premium in addition to the target’s current market price.

Strategy 98

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Case Interview 98

Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 5, 2014

At the start of the semester, the students are provided with a client (an existing organization) who is looking to launch a PR campaign on social media to promote their product or brand. There is an ever-growing need for your team to conduct a risk assessment prior to the launch of any marketing or promotional communication.

Marketing 91

Marketing Case Study Case Studies Course 91

Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Mr. Ninja - A quick review of the markets tells me that oil is trading at $50, Ford is nearly a penny stock, and the shorts are going to take Citi into an AIG-style gov't bailout. There will be many more BearingPoints in this market, including more of the blue-chips (death-watch on GM & C). Productivity. (6). Analysis.

BearingPoint 100

BearingPoint Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines 100

Consultant Ninja

JUNE 20, 2011

From: Client Sent: Monday, 11:32 PM To: Consultant Ninja Subject: RE: Market Data Sources Ninja- Please make this high priority. 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%

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? But in an outcome-centric organization, marketers target individual customers. Becoming outcome-centric requires more than changes to marketing and sales, however. What are you really looking for?

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

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. Think of each performance as an individual airline flight — prices are optimized for each show time. I doubt it.

Airlines 114

Airlines Hotels Sports Advertising 114

Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 3, 2008

This NPR program offers a concrete and fascinating summary of the problems in the US mortgage market. 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% Productivity. (6).

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Airlines Consulting Bain 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

How does disruptive innovation differ when it’s applied to a product versus a platform? For the sake of clarity, let’s call a product “a platform that is used for one or very few products” and a platform “a structure upon which many variations of products are built.” Insight Center.

Productivity 70

Productivity Industry Marketing Accenture 70

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 12, 2009

Evidence in support for point (1) in my post on Uniteds Fuel Hedging Program : Eisman stuck to his sell rating on Lomas Financial, even after the company announced that investors needn’t worry about its financial condition, as it had hedged its market risk. Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88).

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Financial 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. Take a company like Airbnb.

Construction 117

Construction Airlines Data Travel 117

Consultant Ninja

JULY 26, 2011

I wonder if this is a good buying opportunity or the market will stay flat for some time ahead. I guess, before companies start hiring again, business and corporations increasing production, it is unlikely that individuals start purchasing houses. Productivity. (6). September 12, 2011 at 7:55 PM. offshore incorporation.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Real Estate Consulting Airlines 100

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. and Europe. All too often they don’t.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Their growth, however, basically lined up with the overall market they competed in. The market was growing like crazy from 2004-2007, reflecting global economic indicators which drive demand for heavy industrial products. Productivity. (6). All those global economic indicators in the last year have reversed direction.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

billion during the year ended December 31, 2008. " - United Airlines 2008 10-K, 2 March 2009. Im guessing UAL started a large scale hedging program that locked in fuel prices near the market peak - and had to pay out on the put options as prices fell during 2H. Productivity. (6). Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 8:30 PM.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Airlines Consulting Management 100

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Timmys search for competitive intelligence on a CPG competitor to the client has been found out, and his ear was chewed out over the phone by the VP of the target firms sales & marketing organization. Productivity. (6). Timmy did the only thing he could do; refer him to his engagement manager. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain 100

Consultant Ninja

APRIL 16, 2010

Undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, the Paulson & Co. paid Goldman Sachs approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS. Source: SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring and Marketing of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages. Productivity. (6). Friday, April 16, 2010.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain 100

Consultant Ninja

JANUARY 25, 2010

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% Productivity. (6). of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26). Visualization.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain 100

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Predicting demand. Improved pricing.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Studies 132

Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Market Plays: In consulting and banking you find very smart, hardworking people who believe completely in capitalism, the profit motive, and proper incentives will lead to the economic dominance of whichever species best captures their motivating principles. Productivity. (6). Example: The Bank of China , " holding almost $9.7

Oliver Wyman 113

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Bain 113

Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

Friedman Billings Ramsey was hot back in 2005 - boutique investment bank, middle market, a cool FBR acronym. The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. Productivity. (6). Monday, March 23, 2009. Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters. I guess all glory is fleeting these days. Posted by Consultant Ninja.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2013

Instead, we’re exposing the “real world of consulting” to help you cut through firms’ marketing pitches so you can see the day-to-day difference and long-term impact of your work in both consulting fields. In contrast, strategy consulting allows an individual to work across industries.

Financial 252

Financial Consulting Strategy Strategy 252

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

In front of him is a pile of resumes, culled off of monster.com, of people who currently or recently worked at a particular division of a major CPG company, on behalf of the client, another competing CPG company in the same market. So you were organized by product line, then, right?". Productivity. (6). Timmy: "Mmm, I see.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Resumes Airlines 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” This idea that disagreement and conflict between groups can be productive is not new. Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. The results were fascinating.

Productivity 70

Productivity Survey Resources Training 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Large travel companies, such as airlines and hotel chains, know this from painful experience: They pay billions of dollars in commissions each year to Priceline, Expedia, and other online travel agencies (OTAs), which have transformed how consumers book flights, hotels, and rental cars.

Travel 133

Travel Balance Sheet Hotels Airlines 133

Consultant Ninja

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Hes absolutely hammered the sales and marketing division of a particular CPG all week, calling ex and current employees in his quest to dig up the competitive intelligence information the engagement manager has asked him to collect. Productivity. (6). [Scene: Open workspace at the firms* office.] of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Airlines Resumes 100

MishTalk

JANUARY 24, 2014

Argentina Institutes 50% Tax on Internet Purchases; Emerging Market Contagion Spreads; Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey Roundup Yesterday, Argentina devalued the Peso hoping to halt further declines in its currency reserves. Markets had seen this coming as charts of the Peso vs. the US dollar show. The 5-year decline is over 50%.

Marketing 78

Marketing Policies Government Financial 78

Consultant Ninja

APRIL 1, 2009

Im not sure theres a structural shift in the consulting market. 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% Productivity. (6). Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40).

Industry 100

Industry Oliver Wyman Consulting Management 100

Consultant Ninja

JUNE 24, 2009

Actual products, actual service, actual value to clients. I looked through the financials, the marketing plan, the exit strategy, and saw it was pretty light. Productivity. (6). At one point I was an entrepreneur, and every day I got stuff done. This stuff isnt this guys strong suit, he admits. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Prudent Pedal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In my last post, How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader , I laid out a rubric for managing partners to assess the performance of their marketing leaders. My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. Be a leader.

Marketing 52

Marketing How To Airlines Productivity 52

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

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.

Trends 89

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 89

Consultant Ninja

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This indication should signal, pent up demand to return to the market to take advantage of favorable pricing and financing. 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%

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Management Airlines 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Yes, too much involvement can lead to a fixation on incremental improvements that can be shepherded to market quickly, to impact the next quarter’s results. At Aon Health, part of $11.7

Survey 131

Survey Groups Energy Research 131

Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. No need to worry about supply side; a free market consisting of only young, healthy, rich people basically runs itself. July 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM. Hammerspace.

Consulting 113

Consulting Insurance Insurance Oliver Wyman 113