Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Census Bureau shows that in the first quarter of 2017 most purchases happened offline. This is a problem for Google, which wants to convince marketers that online ads are effective. Ultimately, all marketers want an answer to the question: Who buys what, when, and at what price? Retail e-commerce accounted for about 8.5%

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

We started mapping future projections to resource commitments with a framework called the Opportunity Portfolio , in which projects are evaluated with respect to their market and technical uncertainty, their resource intensity, and their upside potential. Stepping-stone options have both high technical and high marketing uncertainty.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. ” She believed her training solution had strategic relevance because it linked to a vital employee metric. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. Building an agile network. Extending the network.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Employees of large companies just don’t go to those lengths, and often, the corporate strategy or leadership changes and doesn’t allow them to persist in perfecting a new concept. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

search interest for “ open now ” grew 300 percent from June 2015 to June 2017. As people search for answers, assistance becomes the new marketing battleground. And the biggest challenge marketers face in this age of assistance is knowing when to act. How Leading Marketers Get Time on Their Side.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Blue Apron formally stated their intention to become a public company in early June of 2017.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout. Eighty-seven percent of HR leaders cited improved retention as a critical or high priority over the next five years, but 20% said they had too many competing priorities to focus on fixing the problem in 2017.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. We first train employees not by predicting future, but by estimating past Twitch metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While it’s tempting to group China and India together as a block of emerging digital markets, they offer several important distinctions, especially for international entities and countries looking to invest. It is also the world’s largest market for e-commerce.

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