Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's emerged as this season's hot holiday pricing strategy for online retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy: dynamic pricing. That's the strategy, employed by industries such as airlines, in which a seller moves prices up and down quickly, charging similar customers different prices for the same product or service.

Retail 8

Retail Price Strategy Airlines 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.].

Magazine 93

Magazine Talent Management Company Resources 93

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Harvard Business School Press (2011) Valuable lessons from 36 CEOs who create simultaneously value that has both economic and social impact The CEOs featured in this book agreed to participate (..)

Books 70

Books Review CEO Participative 70

You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 12, 2010

For instance, Southwest airlines’ over-arching purpose is stated as: “To provide the best service and lowest fares to the short haul, frequent-flying, point-to-point, non-interlining traveler.&# This simple statement lets everyone know why Southwest Airlines is in business and whom it is there, ultimately, to serve.

Environment 42

Environment Servant Leader Leadership Airlines 42

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This is a tremendous strategy. Google acquired ITA Software in 2010, a software company that created airfare and travel management software for airlines and resellers. In the latter half of 2011, Google began to roll out changes that have taken data away from marketers , specifically about how and where visitors found their website.

Marketing 18

Marketing Advertising Software Competitive Advantage 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The DOJ opposed the 2011 merger that AT&T and T-Mobile wanted because it feared that the merger would threaten the role of T-Mobile as a disruptive “ un-carrier ” in the telecom industry. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. I spend much of my time visiting organizations of many different shapes and sizes, in many different fields, with very different business strategies, product offerings, and organizational cultures.

Company 15

Company Collins Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

This pricing strategy failure could have been anticipated by testing the concept with customers as well as learning from similar attempts to ditch discounts. Both Macy''s and American Airlines previously tried to stop discounting in favor of everyday low prices, but quickly had to retreat due to poor customer reception.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Discount Retail Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Even automobile companies and airlines seem to have learned this lesson. Similarly many airlines have cut routes and frequency of flights, giving them fuller planes and more efficient use of their assets (although not improving the customer experience, but that's a topic for another post ). What's your view?

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Supply Chain Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Years later, he bought a financially ailing airline and transformed it into Asia's most profitable and fastest-growing low-cost operator. He set a vision and strategy that was compelling and powerful, yet simple to understand.

Airlines 15

Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. They didn't treat the internet seriously, or if they did, they didn't know how to formulate a strategy once they had moved to the net. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. Technology.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Strategies for staying ahead. In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” Typically, competing hotels fill as many as 70% of their rooms long in advance with mass bookings for conferences, corporate rates, and airline personnel at large discounts. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. agreed and added, "More and more of my clients are making sustainability a core part of their business strategy and they want to be able to report on this, with integrated reporting being the best way for them to do so.". Stay tuned.

Long-term 14

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Yesterday’s strategies simply do not work anymore. Airlines say that delays caused by air traffic controllers cost them a combined $4 billion per year. Where will the pendulum swing next?

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

She was one of the five founding executives of JetBlue Airways; Chief People Officer for Southwest Airlines; and Executive Vice President of Team Services at Doubletree and Promus Hotel Corporations. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. To read Ann’s complete biography, click here.

Environment 70

Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

To compare the iPhone to any other phone is like comparing an airliner to a tricycle. Your competitors will be left to launch smear campaigns, copy-cat products, and monopolistic strategies in a feeble attempt to keep up. Looking back now I realize my hate-affair with computers began right then and there.

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Right before the start of our study in 2011, new closed-circuit television cameras were installed at all airport checkpoints—covering almost all the various positions the officers rotated through, from checking travelers’ documents to operating body-scan machines.

Travel 9

Travel Airlines Transportation Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

This policy touches on one of the biggest strategy questions that brick and mortar retailers are facing today: should in-store prices be the same as those on their web site? After all, gas stations charge different prices for full vs. self-serve gasoline, and airlines set a premium to book a reservation by telephone compared to the web.

Price 8

Price Policies Retail Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Southwest Airlines was able to succeed where predecessor People Express was not by knowing exactly which aspects of their unique operating model were critical to its success, and by scaling only as fast as mainly the model would allow. They resist putting the cart of scale before the horse of competence.

Parcell 12

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Every Chinese citizen’s “social credit score”, drawing upon public and private data sources can determine what services – from no-deposit apartment rentals to booking airline tickets to dating to government services — are accessible to the citizen. Simultaneously, India’s high growth rate of 7.7%

Airlines 10

Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Part of their growth strategy to go public, offering stock as a diversified company.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Fast forward to June 2015, legacy and newer brands alike, such as American Airlines, BuzzFeed, Honey Maid, Ketel One, MasterCard, Spotify, Target, and Uber, flew the rainbow flag for marriage equality.

Brand 250

Brand Politics Letter Participative 250