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Corporate Finance Down-Under
- Rubicon saga complex and colourful
As a movie, the Guinness Peat Group stoush with Perry Corporation, the multibillion-dollar US hedge fund, would have to be called - and apologies here to Bogart, Bacall and Hemingway - To Have and Have Not.

Flight for Survival: A New Operating Model for Airlines - In one industry after another, large traditional companies face a vexing problem: Their business models have become so complex that profit margins have shrunk to almost nothing. ... No companies illustrate this predicament more vividly than the large U.S. hub and spoke airlines: It costs them twice as much per seat mile as low-cost carriers to complete a 500 mile flight, according to Booz Allen Hamilton analysis. ... It may be that only a very different, slimmed down business model can make the hub and spoke airlines competitive again.

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