Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. Practice Areas.

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Interviews Culture Case Interview Automotive 100

Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

” Since Price implemented his plan sales growth and profits doubled. In contrast, is Martin Shkreli a pharmaceutical executive. Yahoo corporate executive Tammi Kroll quit her high paying job to work at Gravity because she said, “I spent many years chasing the money. Now I am look for something meaningful and fun.”

eBook 52

eBook Pharmaceuticals Leadership Fashion 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Regulators try to model how prices, sales, and even the combining parties’ research and development efforts will change after a merger. This is especially true in pharmaceutical markets where new and affordable drugs can improve and even save the lives of many people. If not, it gets the nod. What’s the reason for this?

Research 28

Research Pharmaceuticals Company Development 28

freshminds

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Consultants often offer advice on how to cut costs and therefore drive profits up as well as analyse sales and stocks to work out the most efficient ways of selling products. A short pharmaceutical study on volume and price in this sector of industry - includes a BCG growth share matrix. So what does the consultant need to know?

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals Finance Efficiency Tools 40

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. The company failed on multiple fronts. They were caught behind the times.

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Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

While it’s not an exact science, see what you make of the following story… Doug Meyer: In North America, a pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed Consumer Health Products. The Coalface: He quickly moved into the field – completing store checks in Chicago and Philadelphia with the sales force.

Management 40

Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

When pharmaceutical companies launch a life-saving drug, they regularly spend twice as much on marketing as on the drug development. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Build sales and marketing capabilities is the third principle. Great need doesn’t necessarily equal great demand.

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Nonprofit Wireless Training Training 33

Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

Perhaps even more critical to its success was the the billions of dollars of subsidy provided by the telecom companies to drive the sales of iPhones. The iPhone is the best example of this—its success hinged not only on the device, but its connection to iTunes and the App store. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?

Sports 34

Sports Transportation Pharmaceuticals Sales 34

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. Maggi’s sales accounted for quarter of Nestlé’s $1.6

Pharmaceuticals 28

Pharmaceuticals Sales Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In Minnesota, a baker named Shelley Erickson mobilized customer support through two petitions on Change.org to challenge “cottage laws” that prohibited the sale of food made by independent bakers in their homes. Small businesses and entrepreneurs have also effectively deployed online petitions.

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Government Retail Sales Pharmaceuticals 34

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. Yet it resulted in a corporate mentality focused on making the sale at any cost. At first glance, this policy looks reasonable.

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Ethics Company Policies Sales 28

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

From pharmaceutical companies to financial firms, government agencies to educational institutions, any company that you focus on needs to have a desire for change. Mindy shares one experience in which these efforts worked for her, even though it took four years to complete the sale.

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Company Consulting Marketing Industry 101

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The survey asked the doctors, for example, to rate the product’s performance and to assess to what level they agreed or disagreed with statements made by the firm’s salespeople during sales calls in light of their experience with the drug.

Survey 28

Survey Pharmaceuticals ROI Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

Some firms have managed it, in healthcare and in other arenas — think of QuintilesIMS as a source of pharmaceutical sales data, Nielsen as the authority on TV viewer habits, and the U.S. One solution is to become the authoritative source for a particular kind of information. Census for information about U.S. demographics.

Data 32

Data Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Insurance 32

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Copying techniques have improved so much that some counterfeits now look just like the originals, while online sales make fakes even harder to spot. In order to improve product safety, China’s pharmaceutical, alcohol, and food industries already use QR codes and RFID tags to track products as they move from factory to consumer.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Pharmaceuticals Government Accenture 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. The jobs are in sales, customer contact centers, and field service positions. Or they may be people who interact with customers after the sale.

Talent 28

Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? That includes identifying your current mix of assets and the business model that your asset portfolio creates.

How To 35

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 35

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. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

Bio-engineering critical to pharmaceuticals, plastics and polymers, biofuels. But gains in financial operations? Everything Rosy but Healthcare Curiously, the following chart from the report makes everything look rosy except healthcare. The last column is my set of abbreviated notes, condensed from descriptions in the report.

Industry 28

Industry Biotechnology Transportation Healthcare 28

Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Over the last decade, the money generated by prescription drug companies from sales in the U.S. 1 Pharmaceutical companies are unique in their capacity, due to little regulation and oversight, to raise prices. skyrocketed , growing at average rate of 61%, almost three times faster than increases in sales volumes. has doubled.

Pharmaceuticals 79

Pharmaceuticals Government Healthcare Sales 79

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Through my research for this project, I found that most companies take an extremely sales-oriented approach to their web presence. If I was conflicted between an offer from Acme Pharmaceuticals and MegaSource Software, the chance to talk to a real employee might make the difference. Why wouldn’t we do this at a large company?

Marketing 28

Marketing Recruitment Recruiting Talent 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Such was the case when I was working a grueling pharmaceutical sales job. Do this repeatedly, for at least three to five days, and then observe any perceivable patterns. Often, our discomfort can’t be attributed to a specific source; it is simply a result of a career mismatch.

Exercises 28

Exercises Chemicals Pharmaceuticals Journal 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

Change Management 28

Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. Within the circle, each member holds equal status and should not feel that he or she is being asked to represent the point of view of accounting, sales, shipping, or whatever the home department.

Leadership 36

Leadership Pharmaceuticals Company Groups 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication. The role of sales representatives in Russia was recast to act as knowledge hubs for physicians, since better physicians lead to healthier patients.

Culture 53

Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 53

Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2018

It does not include traditional IT firms that rely on sales of hardware or software as their main source of revenue.). (The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile.

Case Interview 40

Case Interview Intellectual Property Interviews Operations 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

The initiatives included streamlining patient administration in a hospital, implementing a customer-relationship-management (CRM) system in a financial services organization, rolling out a global enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) system for a pharmaceutical company, and promoting collaboration in a technology company.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

” “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. I studied everything I could about wine and became very knowledgeable in that field in a relatively short time.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. Marketing Sales & Service. Howe created the IBM Consulting Group in 1992. Finance Risk.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE. Office Locations. Philippines.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Marketing & Sales. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

We have expertise about how you make change work regardless of whether you’re a pharmaceutical or a financial or a CPG type of firm. If we’re not at the epicenter of the sale and where the change needs to take place, it’s unlikely it’s going to happen. We go across that spectrum. How do you do that?

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Consulting Company Sales System 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

The term “safety culture” is misleading because it suggests organizations have multiple cultures: one for safety, another for production, and perhaps others for quality and for sales. Each firm needs to select or develop its own, appropriate to its functions and products.

Operations 60

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 60

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

This entails identifying whether exposure to a certain promotion, ad, or specific touchpoint (such as a sales encounter) for a demographic can generate future sales. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty. Mapping adds a new layer to this type of monitoring.

Data 28

Data Media Guidelines Travel 28

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. Knowing that your lead is interested in the topic of the white paper is critical information when coming up with your inbound sales outreach strategy.

Consulting 68

Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” Suppose that you run a pharmaceutical company and that you use a linear model to projects sales of recently patented drugs. Say that the contagion model results in similar long-terms sales but a slower initial uptake, but that the systems dynamics model leads to a much different forecast.

Data 44

Data Construction Guidelines Financial 44