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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Tom: North Highland has a broad range of industry expertise including in Energy and Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications, Public Sector, Retail and CPG, and Transportation, Travel and Leisure. Tom: What is the firm’s travel model?

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7 Networking Mistakes to Avoid

Tom Spencer

These are mere guidelines that you can adapt to your own personality and field. DO follow-up on my replies and build with natural conversation (good topics to mention are sports, food, and travel). He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. Lack of rapport. The smoother it is, the better.

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Mobile Phones Promise to Bring Banking to the World’s Poorest

Harvard Business

Consider, for example, a young working mother in the fast-growing mobile market of Pakistan. Because she is paid in cash and conducts all of her transactions in cash, she must travel to pay her bills for medical or child care in person. Or consider a farmer in Nigeria, another market where mobile is spreading rapidly.

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5 Ways to Increase Your Cross-Selling

Harvard Business

In the past, marketers have struggled to deliver the higher response rates they need from existing customers — a smaller group than potential new customers. Digital channels now allow companies to fine-tune marketing messages based on observed behavior. USAA is something of an exception, though. Take a balance-sheet view.

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China's Bill for Cleaning Air Pollution Mounts; State TV Promotes Benefits of Smog

MishTalk

A safe level under WHO guidelines is 25 micrograms per cubic meter. Pollution in China''s Heilongjiang Province Local residents travel on a tricycle in the smog in Harbin, northeast China''s Heilongjiang province, on October 21, 2013. reading of 73 micrograms per cubic meter.

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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business

The pervasive adoption of mobile devices has driven an explosion of contextual user information, including geolocation data, which has become a valuable resource for marketers. However, a lack of technical skill sets among marketers has made it difficult for them to use this data (when they have access to it) effectively.

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Robot Truck Convoy Tests in Nevada; Driverless Trucks Before Cars, and Before the End of the Decade

MishTalk

The technology, developed by Peloton Tech, uses radar and a wireless link so that the following trucks travel at the same speed, braking simultaneously for safety, and doing so on an automated system that doesn''t have the delays of human reaction time. These guidelines open the door for driverless tests of all kinds.