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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think Positive: Where Does the Activist Fit as a Shareholder?

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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

As one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges because African-inspired institutions are forming. That opened opportunities for local companies like Lagos-based AppZone and Nairobi-based Craft Silicon , both fintech companies, to expand operations across the continent.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Construction. Litigation technology.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business

This entails identifying whether exposure to a certain promotion, ad, or specific touchpoint (such as a sales encounter) for a demographic can generate future sales. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty. Mapping adds a new layer to this type of monitoring.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. Knowing that your lead is interested in the topic of the white paper is critical information when coming up with your inbound sales outreach strategy.