Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Project Innovators provide the deliverables in a timely fashion by working with Project Managers ( PMs ). Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. Product upgrades make up the majority of corporate research and development activity. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category.

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1 to 1

JULY 7, 2021

asked Lee Petersen, EVP of thought leadership and marketing at WD Partners, a strategy and design firm. C&A Brasil, for example, the Brazilian arm of a European chain of fast-fashion clothing, saw purchases through its WhatsApp channel grow exponentially during the pandemic. to more than $4.4

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there. However, becoming a published author requires thinking about getting an agent and a publisher, writing a proposal, working with an editor, and developing a plan for promoting the book after it’s published. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. Developing an ecosystem of partners.

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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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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Al Pittampalli is following up his last bestseller with a new one, Persuadable , that promises to change the way we think about leadership. Calvin Liu continues to grow and develop Outpour, an award-winning app for honoring the special people in our lives.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

This section should evaluate the effectiveness of board leadership, including the lead independent director (or independent chair) and committee chairs. It should examine how the leader was chosen, the skills and experiences the individual brings to bear, and their leadership style. How You Manage.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

For example, while organizations often offer leadership development opportunities to the people they want to retain, in one study , Jennifer Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and I found that such managers used leadership development initiatives as a way to make themselves more portable, which made them feel more secure and valuable in the marketplace.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

If biology flows downhill, shouldn’t society as well—especially when society will contain more older people than ever before, while becoming more dependent than ever on the productivity of a relatively smaller cohort of young people? Age-integrating education is another promising frontier.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 19, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Working in a collaborative fashion with your clients helps ensure that recommendations are accurate, that clients follow the recommendations and that they adopt the changes needed to improve themselves and their organizations. Translate This.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

As an organizational psychologist and executive coach, I’ve had a ringside seat to the power of leadership self-awareness for nearly 15 years. 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.

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Henman Performance Executive

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I may trust your integrity and value your product, but if you can’t consistently get it here on time, I ultimately won’t trust you. When you deliver world-class products or services, clients develop loyalty to you. But if you can’t distribute them in some reliable fashion, even the most devoted of your fans won’t stick around.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

One of the most common efforts has been to create affinity groups within the company for people sharing a specific identity (a “Women’s Leadership Network” for example) so that participants can mentor each other and discuss ways to overcome the shared challenges they face.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.” And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. Stable stewardship.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

Prepare, so you can be present and productive. Expecting people to develop their thinking and then express it powerfully in the moment, during a meeting, is expecting too much. If there’s driving involved, ride together. Pick them up at the airport. This is part of laying the foundation for authentic conversation.

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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. Keep focused on your best people. You get hired.

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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. To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. “It doesn’t happen overnight.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country. This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

Let's say that your client has this technical problem with your products. Synthesis is digesting those facts and developing an insight into what the client should do and why they should do it. Your task as a candidate will be to develop and evaluate your hypothesis while answering the pertinent questions. Be prepared.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

On the other hand, analysts who are too deeply embedded in business functions tend to be biased toward the status quo or leadership’s thinking. In response, analysts developed an admirable data envelopment model. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Ambiguity around personal goals, leads to anxiety, misplaced effort and lost productivity. From the early concept of Quality Circles (circa 1970) to more recent experimentation with self–direction, teamworking can positively affect morale, innovation and productivity. Am I the goalkeeper or the centre forward?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. Good ideas and products can emerge from anywhere and almost instantly achieve national and even global reach. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Big themes are great, but periodically a specific example of leadership seems worthy of extra attention. Then came 2016.

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