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.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

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 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.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Chris Brady

JANUARY 5, 2011

Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. Posted by: Eric Gallup | January 06, 2011 at 06:52 PM I am so glad I thought of this idea on how to wear this sweater. You can take it anywhere!

Travel 82

Travel Blog Shaw Letter 82

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. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization.

Learning-by-Doing 11

Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Unlocking Energy. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Prepare in advance to withstand inevitable disappointments: have creative distractions, friends who know how to soothe, a planned break, and a solid plan B. Design stems from USE. Practice frugality.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

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.

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Tolstoy asserted that “ one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.” What is more, love doesn’t replace the functional elements of strategy, finance, sales, product development and HR. LoveOS supports the “apps” of strategy, finance, etc.

Organization 8

Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

However, accelerators are capitalizing on the decreasing costs of starting a business, new thinking on how to run startups , and the increasing importance of mentorship to take companies further down the path towards success — even with smaller check sizes.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge global company such as GE – is how to balance nurturing tomorrow’s future businesses, with the resource demands for running and improving today’s operations. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Some talks go even further, comparing business to war – I’ve accordingly witnessed rousing speeches on Lanchester strategy and from retired generals on how to overcome the enemy.). My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance.

Sports 8

Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Is there a place for an aircraft manufacturer to offer their airline customers 108 shades of white paint, as did an aerospace company in the 1990s? That is, is variety really the spice of life , or does it represent a non-value added effort, if not simply waste? In other words, should variation always be reduced to zero?

Management 28

Management System Deming Goal 28

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. For every 1-cent reduction in the cost of jet fuel, the airlines save $170 million.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

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.

360-Degree Feedback 14

360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Human Resources 14

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

To compare the iPhone to any other phone is like comparing an airliner to a tricycle. Ask any of my friends: I can't shut up about how great the iPhone (and all the other Apple products) perform. So figure out how to deliver amazement. 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

JUNE 20, 2014

It has also led to a growing body of fascinating research , and a growing library of books for lay readers, the latest of which, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions , is just out. By teaching people how to deal with uncertainty, do you mean taking statistics class, studying decision theory? The same for an apparel business.

Uncertainty 10

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. The Rise of Voice Assistants like Amazon Echo, and How to Punish Wells Fargo. How Money Can Buy Happiness. Download this podcast.

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Download Airlines Retail Brainstorming 14