Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

In other words, what are Citibank, American Airlines, Amazon, UPS, and Volvo doing to create engaging apps that bind the user to the company, build brand equity, and provide high exit barriers for customers (and equally high entry barriers for competitors)? Leaders in this space include American Airlines and American Express.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. Managers are trained, developed and evaluated to lead people in accordance with the human values top management espouses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Airline JetBlue has embedded this philosophy in its hiring process. For Chilean bank BCI, common purpose is about developing trust-based customer relationships that last a lifetime. With facts in hand, the company quickly developed a plan to replicate the innovation across its network. Customer service Customers'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While it may still be true that most of those cushy business class seats are occupied by business travelers, it is also true that most business travelers only see those seats when they board or get off the plane, as many airlines make economy passengers do the “walk of shame” through business class. But should we?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

We have found that when this process works well, marketing often takes on an expanded role by, for example, providing sales with data analytics and by supporting the development and testing of sales plays for a specific micromarket or customer peer group. A cargo airline provides another example. In some industries (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. This courtside seat also allows us to observe some of the best (and worst!) 2) Reset the rules of the game. Look at Pfizer's Ian Read.

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Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

When I asked Larry Flanagan, who went on to become MasterCard's celebrated CMO, about their decision to award us the business for the Priceless campaign, he said, "We bonded because McCann Eriksson understood the deep desire of the MasterCard customer, but they understood MasterCard's deep desire, too.". but we're not so sure we can.

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