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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Bain research shows that leading companies can achieve 60% or better response rates in B2B companies and 30% or more in most B2C situations. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. The finance team brought its scenario modeling tools to bear.