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. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One research study suggests that followers contribute on average 80% to the success of an organization. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. We turned to the classic Cobb-Douglas productivity measure , which assesses how firms transform human resource expenditures and capital investments into outputs such as sales or units produced.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. Aliyah Jones was having trouble paying attention to the farewell toasts.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

His consulting group focuses mainly on sales enablement and marketing, and they have been in the business since 1995. In this episode, we talk about the path that led Tony to sales and consulting, and he shares insights into creating a successful consulting firm within the corporate world. Where were you always interested in sales?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

What are the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence personal sales productivity? I recently conducted an extensive study of more than 1,000 salespeople and sales management leaders to determine the attributes of top sales professionals–those who achieved more than 125% of their assigned quota last year.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2011

Such as, a small nonprofit puts a link to Amazon on their website, because they get a few pennies back from each book sale as part of the "associates" program. As a result of her findings, Professor Aradhna Krishna, the study's lead researcher, suggests that maybe not all giving is good giving.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

Therefore, there is a high desire for access to proven methodologies, frameworks and actionable best practices as some of our survey respondents explained: I am looking for a solid consulting methodology. Reinventing the wheel for a proven tool or methodology or technique. Marketing Strategies/Sales. [I Where to start?

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

We recruited 250 experienced purchasing and sales managers and allocated them between the experiments. We divided each study’s sample into three sub-groups: We informed the first group that the firm they were negotiating with (that is, their counterpart’s employer) was a startup.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That’s exactly why we launched our customer quotient (CQ) study , now in its second year. billion, and digital sales were up 23%. Rather than ask people to rate a prescribed list of companies or brands, our methodology asks them to think of a company that “really gets them.” increase in revenue, to $2.4

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. A typical creative question might be, “Why do you think this company’s sales are decreasing?”. We have good news for you!

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

A great deal of research — using methodologies such as resume studies and other models — has found that employer discrimination and prejudice plays a large role in creating this gap. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Before presenting our study, some context is helpful. This is one of the most common beliefs among the VCs we studied. Risk-taking.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 24, 2017

Unless your case studies show your potential clients that you’re capable of solving their problem, they are nothing but wasted space on your website. Your website’s copy certainly helps — but case studies provide an extra layer of credibility. Winning New Clients Through Your Case Studies.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. That led to a ten-year longitudinal study of more than 2,700 leaders. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. Or “Can you come and speak at my sales meeting?”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Transforming Customer Experiences draws upon the latest research and insights to equip senior managers with a new toolkit for leading and managing a professional services firm or a customer service or sales team. “This case study may change the way you think about thinking,” says Buell.

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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. While there were some clever ways to forecast technology adoption, none of the data or methodologies were 100% accurate or reliable. ( They’d say, "I don’t know."

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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. The new approach takes into consideration new originations as opposed to new accounts. The result was an upward shift in the volume of newly originated auto loans by 25 to 30 percent.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

For instance, one case, developed by Buell, focuses on the way IDEO uses human-centered design thinking as systematic methodology to help create new products and services. “This case study may change the way you think about thinking,” says Buell.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

1997 – First Global Prize, an annual business school case study competition for potential recruits, awarded. Marketing & Sales. Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. Beware – A.T.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I was immediately captivated by the dynamic and fascinating world of consulting, and began taking interest in studying cases. ” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

The shadow sector, or informal economy, includes everything from illicit sidewalk sales of counterfeit handbags to large corporations that evade taxes and ignore regulations. In a recent project we studied a foundational issue: the relationship between licit and illicit economies. yangleephoto/Multi-bits/Getty Images.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

CASE STUDY. The STAP is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results. Download Case Study. Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. A critical part of the process and outcome was an aligned team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. In a related study, I found that leaders making internal moves between units in their companies rated the difficulty of their transitions an average of 70% as hard as joining a new company.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. Microsoft is a case in point.

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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. That advice is easier preached than executed, of course, so Clark suggests, “using the methodology of power posing [before the meeting] to tamp down your cortisol levels.”

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 16, 2020

So, two things: What are those questions and how do you answer them as quickly and effectively as possible to speed up the sale of your professional service? What are your underlying methodologies? Every service or program utilizes various methodologies or approaches to get the desired results. What are they? What’s the proof?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. students in 1973-74 studying integer programming algorithms and higher math in meal planning for the military, respectively.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Vendors using eBay and Shopify pay listing and sales fees, and consumers pay transaction fees on payment portals like PayPal. In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive.

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The Fearless Marketer

JUNE 10, 2019

Yes, there are marketing systems and methodologies. Send some written materials (I call this a sales letter) that explain the value of your services. I’ve studied a lot. Doing things consistently at the same time and with the same methodology really helps. I should know, I’ve taught many of them over those 35 years!

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 17, 2016

Market Study. The interviewer wants you to measure the existing market of an item in total sales or total units. . To figure this one out, you can either calculate the number of cars in Mexico last year and then take into account how many were replaced, or use a methodology that measures just car purchases. 1 – Market Sizing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S.,

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