Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. To explore this question, we interviewed senior marketing executives across dozens of top brands. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 10, 2019

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Interviews with buyers illustrate seven important lessons about the mistakes salespeople make and why they lose business. In other words, a product’s strategic value comprises the reasons and arguments that buyers provide to senior management and others in the company about why they should purchase a product.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Developing and validating a seven factor, multi-rater assessment of self-awareness , because our review of the research didn’t identify any strong, well-validated, comprehensive measures. Three findings in particular stood out, and are helping us develop practical guidance for how leaders can learn to see themselves more clearly. #1:

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example.

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Celebrity interviews Having celebrities on your podcast is a huge draw to new listeners and can help you get featured on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Technology Update listeners on the latest developments in a particular area of tech: podcasting, gaming, videography/photography, etc. JUMP TO A SECTION : 60 Unique podcast topic ideas 1.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Consultants are sometimes accused of trying to hoodwink their clients with smoke and mirrors, using management fashions or buzzwords for their own benefit. Consultants deal with three types of threats to their self-image: competence threats, acceptance threats, and productivity threats. Their fakery is not cynical, but sincere.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

We got under the skin of each organization, to understand how they live and breathe, by interviewing people who work (or worked) with them, observing them in action and reading everything about them. We spent five years interviewing thousands of people, making thousands of observations and reading hundreds of documents.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. If I were giving bad news to someone I’d interviewed for a job, I might tweak it a bit, but the basic format would stay the same: [Their name], Thanks for making the time to talk with me last week. You and Your Team Series. Business Writing. Josh Bernoff. Maggy McGloin.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy: Good afternoon. The other thing is we want to make sure that we're able to clear out toxins which inhibit the production of hormones and nutrients and their function. They've actually done some studies now to show that the 35-hour work week is more productive than the 45-hour work week.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. Leadership Development: Organizations often don’t have the skills internally to make a real difference around leadership development. The interviewer replies, “ Yeah, but you started it.”.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

First, it’s essential to develop a lead magnet — a free giveaway that people can download in exchange for sharing their email address. For instance, during the launch of my first book, Reinventing You , I didn’t have a lead magnet, and it didn’t occur to me to suggest during interviews that listeners visit my website.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the case interview process for McKinsey, one of the early evaluations is “Solve,” McKinsey’s digital assessment game (formerly called the McKinsey Problem Solving Game). This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. It is unclear why this is the case. So a bottom-up approach works.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity. It has developed sophisticated tools to help companies build and test the business case for action, or inaction.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). The Internet video that went viral (the guy completing the Skype interview in Korea) shows the importance of having boundaries. Less dry-cleaning bills! What about heat and light?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2017

Now, branded items — from luxury cosmetics to fast food and fast fashion — are becoming widely available at the glittering new shopping malls scattered around the region’s fast-growing cities. This perception leads MNCs to overestimate demand for status-enhancing products. Author’s Photo).

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Also consider Mish Interview With "Bitcoin Jesus". By now it is well known that the proprietor of the ''Silk Road'' internet marketplace for drugs and other illicit products has been busted by the FBI. Scientists in Sweden have developed a hemp-bleaching process that uses only natural enzymes and some pounding of the pulp.

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