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A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong

Harvard Business

Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. We have interviewed Quirky executives and studied each of the company’s product offerings, publicly available product reviews, and their development process. GE, concerned with getting the product to market in time for summer sales, pushed to accelerate the development schedule.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. Consider GM as a case study. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. Here are three reasons why CEOs let this happen: CEO priorities upside down. Customer loyalty comes from an exemplary customer experience.

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OC&C Strategy Consultants Interview and Culture

Management Consulted

Depending on the size of the footprint in their region, the amount of managing partners directly correlate to the sales. 33 Vault Consulting 50 (2015). #7 7 Best Consulting Firms for International Opportunities (2015). #8 8 Best Consulting Firms for Overall Business Outlook (2015). #11 Practice Areas .

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What Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa

Harvard Business

One compelling case study is that of SABMiller. From 2007 to 2016, the brewer saw its African sales outside of South Africa climb from $280 million to $1 billion. In 2015 Kellogg ponied up $450 million to acquire a 50 percent stake in the West African sales and distribution arm of Dufil’s parent company, Tolaram Africa.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service. Forbes hailed it as a veritable case study “on how digital transformation leads to business value.”

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Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment

Harvard Business

As I said at the time, it was a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. In an analysis of income-tax probes , the highest level of illegal money detection in India was found to be in 2015–2016, and the cash component was only about 6%. HUL experienced a 4% decline in sales volumes. Four months passed.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. Once these graduates are on the job, Generation measures their performance relative to peers.