Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Other leaders have established fun as a pervasive element in their very corporate culture (Southwest Airlines and Zappos come to mind). Tense moments were diffused, heaviness was lifted, and optimism was restored through simple gestures of fun.

Travel 119

Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. 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 13

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Barratt Developments. 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.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

To compare the iPhone to any other phone is like comparing an airliner to a tricycle. A fanatically loyal customer base develops. Looking back now I realize my hate-affair with computers began right then and there. Only recently did I finally awake to my stupidity and switch back to Apple products.

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 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. Personal Integration.

360-Degree Feedback 15

360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Finance 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.

Airlines 15

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 15

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

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.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. But it is not stopping there, partnering with third parties like American Express, Nest, Tesla and KLM Airlines to provide their customers with more value added services.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 10

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 12

Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. 61% of those students did nothing about it.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

The best, like American Airlines, make it feel natural. We supplemented our model by using an algorithm and dataset developed by University of Pennsylvania to identify the apparent gender of our subjects and their followers. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At the end of the day, the job of a channel manager is all about developing the capabilities of distribution partners so that they can more effectively sell and service your offering. 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?

Marketing 8

Marketing Channel Management Incentives Survey 8

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. And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Members of the hospital’s design thinking team were inspired by something they saw when they boarded a KLM Airline flight: During a pre-flight huddle of the cabin crew, team members introduced each other and then asked each other two questions on flight safety. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Morale Airlines 8

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

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. About 75% come from the private sector.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Despite best efforts, the proposed American Airlines-US Airways merger will hit points of turbulence. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An all-comprehensive financial literacy program requires an understanding of the financial skills required to perform the job responsibilities, identifying the skills gap, developing content to fill these gaps, and an outcome assessment to ensure that each participant has learned and can apply the knowledge obtained. First, share the numbers.

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

If you know market potential by account segment, you can scale and deploy sales resources appropriately against opportunities and can develop segment-appropriate value propositions and sales processes. Many sales forces do not have estimates of local market potential readily available, and developing them requires work and creativity.

Retail 10

Retail Incentives Tactics Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The Boeing Training & Flight Services division, a 1,500-employee group at The Boeing Company that serves 500 airline customers in over 90 countries, sought to accelerate growth by reorganizing around the customer. Sometimes it's new leadership that spurs action, other times efforts percolating within companies capture executives' attention.

B2C 15

B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

On the latter, we will be carefully observing how developments such as Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies — and, more broadly, the entrance of hedge funds and large institutional investors — will affect the landscape of startup financing.

Hedge 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

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.

Organization 8

Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Companies included in the ETF include major airlines, pharmaceuticals, industrials, and technology. Sample stocks in the ETF are the 100 companies which have the highest social contribution per share, and they are selected from a larger sample of about 300 companies that release their social responsibility reports and reassessed annually.

Long-term 15

Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 15

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

My first airline flight didn't occur until age 19 when I went to pick up a car in Oklahoma. Mostly, however, I stayed close to home in the good old Flint area. Then it all changed. I spent some time in Texas as a student, then attended grad school in Pittsburgh, then went to finish my Master's degree in Toyohashi, Japan.

Travel 115

Travel Education Open-book Letter 115

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. and a Winner Announced! In the opinion of our panel of judges  Caption Contest 2010.7 showed the widest range of responses. You can take it anywhere!

Travel 82

Travel Blog Letter Shaw 82

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

In Gigerenzer’s view, using heuristics, rules of thumb, and other shortcuts often leads to better decisions than the models of “rational” decision-making developed by mathematicians and statisticians. I have a project with the Bank of England called simple heuristics for a safer world of finance. One is to find reasons after the fact.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10