Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I’m not alone: the Global Business Travel Association predicts that business travel spending will hit an all-time high of $1.25 trillion in 2015, a 6.5% Even if it’s a travel day, it’s still a work day. Business Travel. Travel has become a standard part of many professionals’ work life.

Travel 8

Travel Productivity Products How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

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.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Ask anyone who travels for work: It’s not as glamorous as it looks. The excitement can wear off easily—and many business travelers are left feeling lonely. A 2015 study finds there are a host of costs—physiological, psychological and emotional, and social—to frequent travel. Business Travel.

Travel 8

Travel Hotels Engineering Consultative 8

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. Develop an Adaptive Mindset: To navigate successfully through the maze of VUCA, leaders will need to be comfortable with unclear situations and travel into unexplored paths. First, let us look at these shifts. that we used otherwise.

Leadership 70

Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Group marketing programs, such as auto dealer clusters, municipalities for economic development, travel and tourism destinations, trade association and product image upgrades. About the Author. All rights reserved.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. But the middle classes are the key drivers for the future.". But times are changing.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Across labor market segments, mothers appear to be similarly disadvantaged at the hiring stage.” The bias against mothers was particularly strong when the job ad emphasized things like the time pressure of the role or the travel requirements of the job. ” The tip of the iceberg. ” Realistic expectations.

Marketing 109

Marketing Market Segmentation Long-term Commitment 109

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Gate agents typically let the market rule by raising the reward until enough flyers decide to change their travel plans. In 2015 , 505,000 passengers were voluntarily bumped in this manner and another 46,000 were bumped against their will. This will yield a more market-based result.

Airlines 10

Airlines Transportation Incentives Travel 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2015. Travel & Tourism. Whole Foods Market. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. “Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and the evolution of business is gradually eliminating the middle man.”

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Bye-bye to the clunkier and more costly PC.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Some travel is easing. Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. embassy in Havana has reopened.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

Maturity 8

Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. By 2020, half of all travelers will be Millennials. Where do they shop? The internet.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB has been around for decades, but is currently enjoying a revival driven by powerful investors like 3G Capital Partners, the force behind the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Such high-profile exposure has prompted more companies to view ZBB as a fresh “wonder diet” for achieving radical corporate leanness.

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Sub-Saharan Africa is already a competitive market place. Whenever I travel to an African city , I marvel at the dynamism of business activity taking place on the ground.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

” But how many travelers can “live there” before Airbnb accepts that it has become a vehicle for mass tourism, and that its users are tourists, no more and no less? With the number of listings in this small city of half a million people growing from 5,500 in May 2015 to over 10,000 today, a significant impact is inevitable.

Tourism 8

Tourism Travel Price Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Last holiday season, PwC reported that Milllennials were spending a larger proportion on travel and entertainment than were their older counterparts. Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending.

Retail 9

Retail Discount Reis Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. Since China opened up, the nation has travelled through different stages of development. ” chart below).

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

On September 29, 2015, Techdirt posted “ You Can Now Turn Off Ads On Techdirt ,” explaining all the reasons why they were granting readers the power to not see ads. According to PageFair and Adobe’s 2015 Global Adblocking Report , “there are now 198 million active adblock users around the world.”

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

” These customer-praising marketing messages are part of a broader trend in “corporate societal marketing,” which aim to emphasize companies’ social efforts to consumers. At the end of the email, volunteers could click through to claim a gift of either a luxury backpack or a utility travel bag.

Ethics 9

Ethics Licensing Self-aware Morale 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most advertising agencies with creative treatments and marketing campaigns. As an example, between 2008 and 2015, IBM organized its marketing under the shared purpose of “Building a Smarter Planet.” The natural step is to give the assignment to an agency. Most PR firms with messaging and communication plans.

How To 8

How To Brand Retail PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

In 2008, less than two years after starting my marketing strategy consultancy, I took a leap of faith. It’s not always easy to take time off for conferences, which usually require anywhere from 2–5 days away, depending on travel time. That ensures you’ll get to spend time with people you find interesting.

Conference 8

Conference How To Bond Hotels 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Traveling to new places ?. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). For me, the list contains serious and silly things including: Air conducting (I love doing that) ?. Coaching a willing person ?. Facilitating breakthroughs ?.

How To 69

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Sales optimization (SO) decisions — like aligning sales tasks with business strategy, customer selection, and sales force deployment across opportunities — set the direction in which the car will travel. Companies will spend about $30 billion on CRM alone by the end of 2015, according to Gartner.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products CRM Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. If managers are going to be successful in creating a culture of slow innovation, they have to be catalysts of the process, not owners.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Chinese cities can implement, test, refine, and bring to market innovative solutions to large-scale infrastructure problems faster than anywhere in the world. Its success led to a Top 10,000 Program covering two thirds of China’s total energy consumption, or 250 Mtce savings by 2015. billion people.

Energy 9

Energy Policies Innovation Training 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

But you should include detailed estimates for travel costs, telephones and utilities, and office supplies. Could you increase the anticipated sales for this model by 5% or 10% in 2015? How much more would you have to spend on sales or marketing to achieve this increase? How much will these initiatives cost?

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Traveling to new places ?. Also in the group was a woman who was a freelance marketing communications writer (someone who makes a living explaining businesses). For me, the list contains serious and silly things including: Air conducting (I love doing that) ?. Coaching a willing person ?. Facilitating breakthroughs ?.

How To 40

How To Course Chaos Theory Hotels 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. A 2015 study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that “women in senior management are seven times more likely than men at the same level to say they do more than half of the housework.”

Delegation 8

Delegation Outsourcing Insurance Loyalty 8