Posts from May 02, 2008

Diane Clarkson | May 02, 2008, 05:09 PM
Airline crisis deepens
This is no doubt that the US airline industry is in crisis caused in large part to the current record-breaking fuel prices. This crisis isn’t something that $25 second bag fee and slowing flight speed a few km/hr will resolve. Airline execs know this. Extreme fare increases and dramatic cutbacks...( more )

Ed Kountz | May 02, 2008, 10:35 AM
Fee Fairness-Back Again // a Belated Goodbye to the ExpressPay Fob
The perennial discussion of credit card industry fees is on-again, with a bullet, in Washington. Thursday saw the Office of Thrift Supervision roll out a seven-item plan designed to tackle issuer practices it considers unfair. The plan would, among other things, give consumers more time to pay bills and eliminate...( more )

Zia Daniell Wigder | May 02, 2008, 10:17 AM
Keeping up with localization
In the past couple of months, the topic of localization seems to have been everywhere. In March, both McKinsey and BCG tackled this issue in their publications: The McKinsey Quarterly addressed the central-local debate in global staffing in The multilocal challenge: Managing cross-border functions while the Boston Consulting Group issued...( more )