Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2020

With that in mind, during the worst recession that we have personally experienced, colleges have managed to double their price. It also eliminates the unnecessary health-risk exposure of teams and fans traveling between colleges. To stick with the theme here, marketing mail is flooding student’s home mailboxes.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

A good present-day example of this type of leadership can be found in Virgin Group Ltd, a very successful corporation renowned for its presence in a wide variety of global markets. Art Gould is a division manager with Self Storage Company, which operates a group of websites, including a Nashville self-storage locator.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

If you’re looking to help tap into the online market, then here are seven pro tips and tricks to develop and grow a business online. For those on their daily commute, they spend almost all of their time on the phone when traveling via public transport. Cross-promote your channels for maximum exposure. According to Perficient, ‘ 68.1%

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As a traveler, I can’t do this every day. Talk travel. Talk fashion. Customer Relationship Management Marketing & Sales Practices for Professionals buy gitomer buygitomer customer relationship management Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven' Talk family. Talk hobbies. Talk sports.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. As I travel the world, leading what we call our tribe , I also am invited to give speeches and advise our customers and partners. At WD-40 Company, we include values as part of our talent management system.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

The airline was having enough trouble negotiating their pilot contracts let alone getting cooperation from the supreme powers that be, so I bugged out to wander the concourse and pump a little blood into my travel weary brain cells. I had a lot to think about. The meeting had gone okay, I guess. However, “Burn Your Boss?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

Early last year, I helped craft a presentation for a gathering of senior managers at a clothing company. She traveled the world giving presentations that featured these artifacts to illustrate the company’s brand promise through a visceral experience that no brochure or blog post could match.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

this is especially true now that Millennials — about 43% of whom are not white , according to Pew Research—make up a growing slice of most consumer markets. Misconceptions like this aren’t limited to American markets. For managers, the implications are clear: First, we need to look beyond demographics.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2011

Marketing executive in New York City. You may even share the views of the marketing executive that I quoted above. ’ As Author of How to Speak American : Building Brands in the New Heartland, Paul shares his groundbreaking insights and has emerged as one of the most respected voices in marketing today. population.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images. A New Type of Local Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

But even for a seeming commodity such as air travel, an element of the traveling public is willing to pay a slight premium for superior service … In our case, we’re talking about an average of 5%. That fences off the majority of business travelers, even (or especially) if they fly economy class.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

We weren’t sending them off on a gap year to travel Europe — we would help them roll up their sleeves and figure out what it took to run a business. Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

On the sidewalk, an aspiring tan model flanks a manager-host, who wears a loud tie to go with the even louder voice he uses to solicit passersby. Restaurant type two: You want to have a couple of special dinners during your travels so you've done some careful research prior to your trip. Type one represents what marketers call "push."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). It’s the realm of fashion houses that know to make fewer chokers and invest in more crop tops.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Thanks for sharing the eloquent words Dan. What are you reading?

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Harvard Business Review

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. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. Today, the load factor (total vehicle miles traveled divided by lane miles) is growing more than 10 times faster than capacity is. Longer commute times are just one sign that congestion is creeping into our lives.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, some people seem to regard the notion of “conscience” as old-fashioned. Many folks have taken such things as freedom, unrestricted travel, and sharing special moments with family for granted. Your advice is that “personal branding is less a marketing exercise than it is becoming the best person you can be.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. “It’s important to enjoy spending time with your colleagues and your manager,” says Dillon. “You might try to convince your manager to let you work remotely for a month,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions. Comic Relief, by contrast, eliminated all of these.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. However many big projects become inflexible, travelling on rails to a fixed destination.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Of all the lessons I’ve learned about innovation and change, one stands above the rest: There is no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. The thrill of breakthrough creativity doesn’t just belong to upstart companies with the most radical technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. Leapfrogging is the umbrella name for the systems available to us today that make all this possible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. Those that can accurately categorize, measure, and mitigate their patients’ suffering most effectively will be rewarded with greater market share as well as the loyalty and retention of clinicians and other personnel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

One survey we recently did helped us distinguish between what business and leisure travelers look for in a hotel. It told us that we needed to work on winning back a greater proportion of business travelers as leisure guests, and positioned us to increase that by 6% over the following six months. However, beware the opposite.

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