Tom Spencer

MAY 27, 2017

million days were lost in 2015/16 due to stress. As an owner’s ability to perform suffers due to stress, the management of the business can deteriorate. His aim is to help small businesses professionalise by filling in the missing gaps that are holding them back, whether marketing or administration, sales or bookkeeping.

Small Business 60

Small Business Survey Management Sales 60

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Recruiting 37

Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 37

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. As a leadership coach, I work with many female leaders and managers on improving their time management skills and work-life balance. I’ve changed their names and some details.)

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Study Travel 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015. We found that, in 2015, one-fifth of business travelers took bleisure trips, and 7% of all business trips fit the bleisure profile.

Travel 28

Travel Survey Analysis Meeting 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups. They do so because poor execution in retail is treated as inevitable, or attributed to the limitations of store managers or staff.

Retail 28

Retail Sales Productivity Research 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. Communicate that the organization’s success is based on a marathon, not a sprint.

Boston Consulting Group 44

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 44