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Cracking Pricing Strategy Case Studies

Tom Spencer

The first option to price a product is to look at how much it costs the company and then to set a price by adding a markup so that the company earns a certain profit margin on each unit sold. Here are the typical questions you need to go through for cost-based pricing: What are the variable costs for the product you are pricing?

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below). How to answer the case study.

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Case Study: How Do You Compete with a Goliath?

Harvard Business

“It feels weird eavesdropping like this,” Alejandra Chirinos told Ricardo Rodriguez, her marketing VP, and Miguel Martinez, her head of sales. Soledad Orellana, the market research consultant who’d arranged the session, concurred. Ricardo chuckled. “They know they’re being watched,” he said.

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Can Consulting Make a Positive Social Impact?

Tom Spencer

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Let us look at an example as a sort of case study. Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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PM Interview Question – What’s Your Favorite Product and Why

Tom Spencer

Like a consulting interview, a product manager (PM) interview consists of multiple parts, including a case study and a behavioral portion, which looks for communication, management, and prioritization skills. But what’s different is that it adds a twist by having product-related questions as well. Which product to pick?

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business

We can use practices from Doug’s approach to the trust-building competency over his 40-year leadership career as a case study for the behaviors leaders should develop as they work to build and sustain trust. Doug observed this when he moved into a Vice President of Marketing position at Nabisco in the $3.5

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Case Study: A Luxury Brand Competes Against a Flashy New Rival

Harvard Business

Wei Song noticed the fashion models first. Pearl, his VP of marketing, had learned that their rival Berlinger was launching a line of gem-accented watches, which would be sold exclusively through Shanguang, China’s biggest jewelry retailer. ” “And so we’re stuck with subtle marketing? In this city?