Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Project description: A student led project that aimed to assist a small business with a particular challenge or issue facing them. We analyzed the start-up’s sales with the goal of improving business growth, created an excel pricing model, and analyzed the start-up’s cost-management and labor use efficiency.

Consulting 142

Consulting Recruiting Recruitment Sales 142

Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Somewhere over the rainbow… is the successful sale and exit of your business. There are two classes of business buyers, strategic and financial. Financial buyers tend to want a return on investment based on the current operations. Scalability—most buyers want a business they can work on versus work in.

Small Business 40

Small Business Financial Operations Industry 40

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A strategy consultant will take an overall view of the client's business and market while looking at its allocation of resources, and try to improve the client’s business. Operations To put it simple, operational consulting improves the optimization of a company's internal operations and performance in the value chain.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 20, 2017

We discuss concepts to help listeners advance their strategy, operations and implementation skills, enhance their critical thinking ability and build their executive presence. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. Sales for Nerds ( [link] ) helps technical experts who started their own business hack the sales and marketing process.

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Consulting Interviews Sales Travel 113

MishTalk

AUGUST 4, 2015

July’s sharp decrease in the level of new business at manufacturers surpassed the previous record set in February 2012. Panel members commented on the impact of capital controls on demand, and also cited a generally uncertain operating environment which further weighed on sales.

Banking 28

Banking Small Business Retail Benchmarking 28

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As you might know, Motorola eventually dominated the pre-smartphone mobile phone market with close to $10 billion in annual sales. This approach works incredibly well in more established industries where there’s ample data available on the market, customer segments and competitors. They’d say, "I don’t know." "How I’m not sure." "How

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McKinsey Case Interview Bain Data 75

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Even if a business knows how normal weather affects its earnings, unexpected abnormal weather events present their own risks. Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

Cash Flow 28

Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 28

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Historically, commercial banking and investment banking functions have been separated by law – these restrictions have since been repealed and larger banks tend to take on capital markets operations due to the complimentary nature of the businesses. In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker.

Banking 12

Banking Industry Balance Sheet Retail 12

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

But the vast majority of these new businesses are likely small businesses with no intentions to grow large (for example, dry cleaners and restaurants). These averages, however, hide a large amount of variation across industries. In software startups, the average age is 40, and younger founders aren’t uncommon.

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Research Biotechnology Industry Media 53

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

And in a small business, like a convenience store, it initially is: customers, employees, suppliers, and owners. Its other key stakeholders were distributors; customers-retail; customers-industrial/food service; consumers; and employees. Step one is to recognize your dependencies , i.e. your key stakeholders. The reason?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Government 35

Government Retail Sales Pharmaceuticals 35

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Our first question is: what is “small?” Pretty small. Axial – 66% of businesses with employees are owned by baby boomers (2015).

Marketing 40

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments.

Recruiting 37

Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 37

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. It’s not a good position to be in.

Leadership 28

Leadership Metrics Operations Culture 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

But sales hardly budged. Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack.

Productivity 28

Productivity Sales Operations Groups 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I begged my favorite Econ teacher to let me into his Industrial Organization course and fortunately I got a spot. Half of the class was devoted to examining different models and learning the game theory behind strategic decision making; in the remainder of the class, we applied that knowledge and analyzed different industries.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Martinka Consulting

MARCH 22, 2014

An ongoing question in the buy-sell industry is, “What’s included in the deal?” A business that is really a job for the owner and the job is doing, making or selling the company’s product or service. These are small businesses, usually selling for under $1 million.

Sales 40

Sales Small Business Banking Examples 40

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is the team, there is the way in which you approach sales and then there is how you manage operations. 3 Sales are the single most important thing to work on; and you can’t outsource it Following up the three different areas of focus above (people, sales ops), sales has turned out to be the hardest and most critical for us.

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Consulting Management Sales Operations 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Related Video. ” scenarios.

Finance 28

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Consolidation in the banking industry. sale of weapons) or confer a net economic benefit to society (e.g. Many small businesses, like family owned restaurants, operate on a cash only basis. Governments may view these businesses as tax evaders. Consolidation in the banking industry. Regulatory risk.

Banking 88

Banking Government System Policies 88

Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

They are drawn to consulting because of how the profession allows them to solve complex problems as some of our survey respondents explained: My absolute favorite part is talking with a client and sniffing around their business to find out what's wrong with it and craft a solution to it. Marketing Strategies/Sales. [I Where to start?

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Study Consulting Survey Methodologies 156

Martinka Consulting

JULY 27, 2016

Guest Column: I have been involved in buying and selling business for more than twenty years as an owner-operator, advisor and investor. Over the past ten years, I have worked with thousands of prospective business buyers through the various guides my company publishes. Overpaying For A Business.

Sales 40

Sales Operations Methodologies Financial 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Become a proven insider: In the absence of ready-made credibility that comes with academic credentials, you can establish bona fides by gaining deep industry-specific and firm-specific knowledge. Employers often feel safer hiring industry and company insiders. The company was sold for nearly $50 million.

Education 28

Education Talent Industry Sales 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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.

Education 30

Education Real Estate Research Company 30

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To begin with quantitative outcomes, the Indian economy is operating at about $45 billion less cash than what it would have been if demonetization had not taken place. The result?

Government 53

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