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.

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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. market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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MishTalk

JULY 21, 2014

Challenge From Russia Please consider Russia Challenges Accusations that Ukraine Rebels Shot Down Airliner. Russia''s Defence Ministry on Monday challenged accusations pro-Russian rebels were to blame for shooting down a Malaysian airliner and asked the United States to produce satellite images to support its assertions.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 30, 2016

American Airlines doesn't know what to say. And the key part of a great service-based product is service, which is totally up to you, the marketer. Direct marketing is measured, brand marketing is long-term and aspirational. And they're having a lot of trouble saying it.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

United Airlines has leapt into a brand disaster of mythic proportions. The company’s stock lost hundreds of millions of market cap , but the damage to the brand (and future sales) may be far higher. United (and its airline peers) had better wake up fast to this new reality as well. Three themes seem critical.

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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. Officials: No Evidence Of Direct Russian Link To Malaysia Plane Crash. Senior U.S.

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MishTalk

JULY 17, 2014

A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington declined to comment on charges that pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine shot down a Malaysian Airlines plane. It''s also not an easy weapon to fire, and would require some training or prior knowledge to use it. Why should we comment on allegations?" the official said.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Building models with web search data as one of the inputs reduces mean absolute forecast error, a standard measure of prediction accuracy, for monthly national sales predictions on the order of 40% from baseline for auto makes with relatively small market shares, compared to traditional time-series models. Improved pricing.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 17, 2019

If it costs an airline $1,000 of marketing and route development to acquire a first class business traveler, it’s worth at least $10,000 in customer service to keep one. .” There’s an alternative. It begins with understanding the economics of loyalty. That’s incredibly frustrating–you’re right.”

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Alan Weiss

MARCH 28, 2020

The banks failed, the market collapsed, and people jumped out of windows because they were ruined. Will airlines and hospitality recover? The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t another train, it’s the sun. ” Start on a small basis with Zoom or teleconferences. Will this be as bad as the Great Depression?

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

As a company gets bigger, there''s an inevitable split between the people who market what gets made and the people who design what gets made. One of the most important decisions made in the early days of JetBlue was that the woman in charge of marketing the airline was also in charge of hiring and training.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. There are two reasons for that.

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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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

After all, there’s a subtle difference in how these two disciplines train people to understand and manage risks: Legal training focuses on the downside of particular actions, while business training may emphasize the upsides for shareholder value from risk taking. Second, we examined firm behaviors across CEO types.

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MishTalk

MARCH 29, 2015

If someone dissimulates – that is, they don’t want other people to notice – it’s very, very difficult,” Reiner Kemmler, a psychologist who specialises in training pilots, told Deutschlandfunk public radio. They fly daily over Afghanistan and Iraq but also over heavily trafficked airspace where they fly high above commercial airliners.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. A famous example is Hoover’s free flights promotion. A little later, the U.S. customers in order to boost sales.

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Earlier that day Joe had been to a training session with Liz McKeown who’s described on social media as a ‘Beauty Business Expert.’ The legendary book ‘Moments of Truth’ by Jan Carlzon, detailed the business turnaround enacted at Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) and was on the executive best-seller bookshelf in the late 1980’s.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

A few years back, my three-year-old son Max had an unyielding passion for Thomas the Tank Engine trains. But for Max, what was equally natural was to expect his train portfolio to continue to expand indefinitely, or at least until the enchantment ended. Measuring Marketing Insights. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market. The guidelines suggest that by 2020, the goals in all the main reform areas should be accomplished, constituting a system that is more suitable to the nation’s socialist-market economy,” said Xinhua.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. And finally clinicians will need careful education and training for digital health, which is by and large not found in national training and continuing education programs. Insight Center.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2016

A protest by air traffic controllers prompted France’s Civil Aviation Authority to ask airlines to cancel 20 per cent of their flights in France. Hollande's job creation proposal centered around training schemes and apprenticeships. He declared a state of emergency to save jobs, namely his.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

When Amazon decided to enter the Indian e-commerce market, it was clear from the outset that something would have to give. A decade into the new millennium, India, with its billion-plus people and largely untapped e-commerce market, beckoned. Amazon.com debuted as an online bookstore in 1994. and to other countries. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

From airlines to autos, and from TVs to taxis, individual entrepreneurs have upended one industry after another. When channeled successfully, these attributes represent the lifeblood of entrepreneurship and market disruption. A qualified facilitator is trained to handle these situations and move past them.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

We believe so — it is a form of governance that is much older than the public and private equity models, one developed in sophisticated Western capital markets. It takes time and courage to establish a chocolate habit in a completely new market, without compromising the original brand name, quality, or taste standards.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. Lilly trains its alliance managers to look at risk as the precursor to conflict, as parties typically engage in conflict as a method of reducing or controlling alliance risk. Train key alliance personnel to listen and make space for disagreement and conflict.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brands are finding out for themselves as they look to adapt to markets and customer behaviors that have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. But what does it mean when the usual factors that drive customer loyalty—product, price, place, and promotion—have been stripped away or nullified?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

The soaring Swiss franc that caused howls in financial markets is creating a bonanza in stores, where shoppers are suddenly getting discounts on everything from vegetables to party dresses. They do lose out current inventories of goods, but this is not the widely-believed export disaster story except for the initial stock market carnage.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2015

The units are perfectly trained and mostly ex-US military with high-level combat experience. Ukrainian Military Transport Loading Tanks I am told this is a recent (within past few days) image of the Ukrainian " Antonov Airlines " An-225 cargo plane picking up surplus Soviet-era tanks at the Prague airport for transfer to Ukrainian forces.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 24, 2016

However, when the war was over, the abundance of used military planes inundated the commercial market and sent many aircraft producing companies into financial tailspins. By adding airmail planes to its fleet, in addition to servicing the rapidly expanding market for commercial airlines, Boeing saw sustained post-war success.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. From airlines to banks we experience this all the time. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet. The name of Petrobras appears on several slides, as the training goes deeper in explaining how date from the target companies is monitored. Results - what do we find?”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Southwest Airlines operates within an industry routinely made fun of for its poor customer service; however, it is known for the opposite. Google has faced many challenges on its path to becoming the 5th most valuable company by market capitalization in the world. Businesses have to reinvent themselves to grow and adapt to changes.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

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