Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? Our hypothesis was that increased sales volume would be associated with increased profitability due to economies of scale. His advice was specific to consulting, but applicable to other areas of business too.

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Data Consulting Balance Sheet Analysis 78

freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

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. Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below).

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. These cases can be some of the scariest, because they test things like finance principles, but on the other hand, they’re really easy to recognize.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales Training without Reinforcement Should Be Unacceptable. Based upon over 800 sales training measurement projects, we know that sales training by itself – even if it is highly customized – only changes the on-the-job behavior and performance of 1-in-5 sales reps. Sales training reinforcement.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2019

All companies seek to experience high sales growth. A Recent McKinsey Study. A recent McKinsey study of more than 1,000 companies identified five meaningful things that distinguish fast-growing sales organizations from their lagging peers. Four Ways to Unlock High Sales Growth for Your Company.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. That’s quite a collection of corporate carcasses.

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Guidelines Operations Talent Sports 140

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

I like to think I’m a pretty good marketer of my professional services. After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Sales 47

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Yet much of the data from sources such as CRM reporting tools and time studies is self-reported, and thus inherently flawed. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. A recent case study involved Shake Shack, a New York based fast food chain, wanting to build the “Shack of the Future”. After prospecting, gaining client-buy in, and closing a deal, the groundwork begins.

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Development Consulting B2C B2B 88

Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. Achieving Your Project Management Goals with Progressus Project Accounting Progressus Project Accounting allows project-based businesses to take control of project finances.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Most sales models include a conversion funnel in which reps try to convert a marketing-generated lead into a prospect and then a customer through sequential steps. Along with improving sales results, research has shown that incremental commitments can boost charitable giving, increase show rates for blood drives, and reduce smoking.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

External factors: Sometimes, external factors beyond the team’s control, such as external pressures, changes in market conditions, or unexpected events, can disrupt teamwork and make it difficult for team members to work together effectively. Increased employee turnover: Poor teamwork can contribute to higher employee turnover rates.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 1, 2021

To motivate visitors to fill out your survey, you can offer them a reward or something for free, like a case study, e-book, a free trial of your product, or anything that doesn’t cost you a lot but creates a hook for conversion. Sales manager. In addition to adapting your site for mobile, you need to work on mobile marketing as well.

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Productivity Survey Tools Marketing 88

Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

One of Velosio’s clients, a management consulting firm , replaced an aging Microsoft Dynamics SL back-end ERP and NetSuite for CRM with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Customer Engagement, Marketing, and Progressus Project Management.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Mergers occur when two companies join forces.

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Balance Sheet Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 60

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting. And, of course, their claim to fame, Financial Services , is broken down into even more practices including: Finance and Risk. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Consultant.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. I was immediately captivated by the dynamic and fascinating world of consulting, and began taking interest in studying cases. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. The Zipursky cousins are marketing masterminds, and have a deep expertise in how consultants can build a thriving consultancy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Every few months it seems another study warns that a big slice of the workforce is about to lose their jobs because of artificial intelligence. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

1 to 1

JUNE 16, 2022

Total experience in action: Earlier this year, Disney earned the top ranking in MBLM’s Brand Intimacy Study , which means more consumers have a stronger emotional connection to Disney than any other brand. Visits to distribution centers, employee interviews, and ride-alongs with sales representatives were all parts of the process.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either.

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Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 35

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. billion sales in India.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The job market does not account for all social value. On the other hand, some sectors involve “zero sum” endeavors, in which profits come at the expense of other market participants. Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Some spillovers are quite large.

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Policies Talent Government Research 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Estimates of the annual medical costs of obesity range from $147–$210 billion , approximately 40% of which is financed by Medicare and Medicaid. To address this question, we analyzed six years of weekly milk sales data from over 1,700 supermarkets across the U.S. We studied milk consumption for two reasons.

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Policies Sales Education Study 28

Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They study it, critique their teams, especially the coaching staffs, and wonder why the coaches do the things they do (as they, the fans, know what would have worked). You have to get the word out (marketing). As it’s football season let’s discuss how football fans can really get into it.

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Sports Sales Exercises Finance 40

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Establish functions from scratch — Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, and HR.

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Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 46

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

A New York Fed study notes a huge surge in subprime auto loans after taking into account a newer, more accurate methodology. Auto Finance Companies vs. Banks and Credit Unions Note the jump in truly awful credit score originations Delinquencies Tick Up The uptick in delinquencies is modest so far. billion, bank executives said.

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Banking Methodologies Advertising Finance 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Specializing in economic, financial and market analysis, specifically for cases in litigation, Cornerstone Research touts itself as the one player major law firms turn to when navigating the obstacle course that is the American and European legal systems. Many former employees go on to programs in business, finance, economics and law.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

To answer this question, I considered several scientific studies of CEO impact. Recent large-scale studies highlight the effects of CEOs on their organizations. return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) have been increasing with time , at least in the U.S. — think they are more important now.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Slowly but surely, Illinois government is beginning to drown in red ink, State Comptroller Leslie Munger said today, as the cost of the continuing Springfield budget war steadily worsens the already bad condition of state finances. Without legislative action to adopt a balanced budget, the state's backlog of unpaid bills will hit $8.5

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Finance Government Sales Study 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. What made their ascent possible? They pursue management challenges.

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