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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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What Cuba’s Economic Evolution Means for Multinationals

BCG

The experiences of China, Russia, Vietnam, and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have shown that such liberalization can lead to rapid economic growth, along with opportunities for multinational companies and foreign investors to stake an early claim in an untapped market. This article discusses the results of that analysis.

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The Secrets of Retail’s Repeat Top Performers

BCG

The best value creators over time are those that are insulated from e-commerce, capitalize on the growth of emerging markets, and continually evolve their business model. Travel and tourism, consumer durables, consumer nondurables, and fashion and luxury were the other four.

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The Leadership Clash That Led Colombia to Vote Against Peace

Harvard Business

Whether he’s traveling to the Amazon jungle or the vast tropical “llanos” plain, or even to the coast, he fails to find the language to connect and to provoke empathy. He wanted to expand tourism to the country in number of visitors and by attracting tourists to areas formerly ruled by guerillas.

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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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Creating Incentives to Reduce Healthcare Costs; Medical Tourism Can Save Us All Money

MishTalk

Graham explains How Domestic Medical Tourism Could Save Us All Money. One of the most under-reported medical success stories in recent years has been the increase in medical tourism: traveling abroad to get high-quality care at a fraction of what it would cost in the United States. And there is no reason to stop at Medicare.

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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. What does this mean?