Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

The strategy firms saw some of their best talent head off to startups, which promised untold riches, at least until the Dotbust of 2000, and to Wall Street or Greenwich or wherever the racier genii of modern finance ply their trade. You can still find many an alum of McKinsey (or Bain & Co., The desire to be an insider.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 16

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 11

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold. The next two Popes won't be a woman.

Health Care 10

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 10

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

DEBBIE LASKEY : When I started graduate school, I thought I would travel the typical MBA journey by studying finance, management, and organizational behavior. 3) There's Southwest Airlines. Since her inception, she has had 200 different careers. Think of Southwest Airlines. Can every airline brand be Southwest?

Marketing 86

Marketing Airlines Brand Hotels 86

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

Strategy 15

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 15

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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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. It is not, however, the only lens through which to view decision-making. The same for an apparel business.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 14