Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economists and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Take the subscriber-first strategy of The New York Times. Now’s the time to put these three mindset shifts in place with a clear strategy and plan. To learn more click here.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Most carriers “bake in” a financing payment into their two year plans (monthly fees implicitly include both a wireless service and a financing payment for a new device). Customers can stop the service at any time, but to do so they have to pay off their financing balance immediately (which is akin to the early termination fee).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Another interesting example of small, high precision data being used to make big gains with AI can be found in the airline industry. In 2015, Boeing launched the Aerospace Data Analytics Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop AI technology for airlines. How can you put these ideas to work for your company?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Automotive. Cisco Systems. Communication. British American Tobacco. Alibaba Group. Technology. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo. Consumer Goods. Online Retail. Goldman Sachs. Exxon Mobil. Oil & Gas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. The chance of getting killed in a crash on a given flight on a major airline is roughly 1 in 10 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Based on our research, the best channel managers tend to have more in common with great general managers than with great sales managers, especially when it comes to three areas: Strategy. Laura Schneider for HBR. If you could hire only one more person for your organization this year, where would you make that hire? Somewhere else?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

No strategy is static. Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. With superconsumers, this is actually straightforward. Unlocking Energy.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

and with half of its fund assets indexed, it is not going anywhere if it does not like its portfolios’ strategies or results. But that does mean indexed investors will remain passive if a company’s strategy could be strengthened or its results could be better. ” And everybody on the team should be savvy on strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An effective financial literacy program should clear concepts of finance and accounting in simple terms with examples that are relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Joe Knight is widely considered as one of the world’s most influential finance and business literacy leaders. First, share the numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. LoveOS supports the “apps” of strategy, finance, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Over the past five years, we have followed the rise of customer experience efforts from small outposts to central players in executing company strategies, especially as firms have faced growing challenges in maintaining meaningful differentiation based on product innovation alone. Consider one example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

I couldn't believe some of the people I was seeing from McKinsey," recalls a partner at another strategy firm. When strategy consulting firms first got going in the 1970s and 1980s, it was probably easier for the hotshot MBAs they hired to look with disdain at the poor Joes they were nominally attempting to help.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

For example: • Sales force strategy and scale. If sales managers know account potential, they can coach salespeople on the best strategies for driving revenue growth. In some industries, such as airlines and pharmaceuticals, data companies sell information on sales of all competitive products by account or local market.

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Harvard Business Review

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

They are not going to unfold their strategies below a very high level of abstraction. They are not going to unfold their strategies below a very high level of abstraction. For that they have underlings — even high-level underlings. Because it isnt their sport. Its not what got them where they are. Because it isnt their sport.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact.

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Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. It has resulted in higher prices in the airline and banking industries. Twenty years ago, BlackRock and Vanguard were only very rarely among the top ten shareholders of any firm.

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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.".

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 15

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. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.

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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.

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Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

What happens if next time it’s not a near-miss , but a direct hit of a commercial airliner by a Russian plane that turns its transponder off? The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. There’s fear of being made responsible if something goes wrong, so they have developed a few strategies to deal with this fear. That’s a good strategy if you have a business in a very stable world. The same for an apparel business.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

How Bad is Airline Service, Really? Youngme and Mihir welcome their colleague Ryan Buell to discuss whether airlines deserve their reputation for terrible customer service. She also talks about what should be done about “bad people doing bad things” and the link between strategy and culture. Download this podcast.

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