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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors

Harvard Business

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Alternatively, the company can operate in stealth mode by targeting customer segments that have been poorly served or ignored by traditional distributors. Three Images/Getty Images.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Expand from U.S.

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Thinking Like a Consultant: Quantitative Reasoning and Prioritization

Management Consulted

In 2013, The Economist published an article on the increasing demand for management consulting in various sectors of society. Recapped here, a consultant will conduct research and give business advice so that one of the 3 following outcomes will be achieved, depending on the work you have been commissioned for: 1) Increased sales.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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What are the potential risks of digital currency?

Tom Spencer

As early as December 2013, the People’s Bank of China issued a notice warning the public about the risks of bitcoin and prohibiting financial institutions from dealing in bitcoin, accepting it as a means of payment, or providing bitcoin related services. sale of weapons) or confer a net economic benefit to society (e.g. Acts of God.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.