N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

As a digital marketing consultant, I've been praising the promise of these new technologies, but I also have been learning more and more about the negative side effects of our increasing use of digital. Recently I spoke to a group of high-school marketing educators about the current state of social media marketing.

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Media Blog Audience Ryan 417

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Diane Ryan – Associate Dean. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In the words of its executive vice-president and chief merchandising and marketing officer, “This is really the year of localization.”. To protect their advantage, forward-thinking national chains are combining their brand recognition and market penetration with a local approach. There are other operational considerations.

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Retail Merchandising Market Penetration Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

HBR Staff/Chris Ryan/Getty Images. I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. Maintaining quality customer experience, we found, requires a mix of expert individuals and operational processes.

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Operations Brand Ryan COO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In today’s hiring market, a generous benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining top talent. Our director of operations, Ryan McGonagill, says there hasn’t been a large spike in the amount of time employees spend out of the office, but the quality of work continues to improve.

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Insurance Policies Survey Bond 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

According to our report The Power of the Purse: Engaging Women Decision Makers for Healthy Outcomes , which was based on a multi-market survey of 9,218 respondents in the U.S., Women account for a significant chunk of the market. Fifty-nine percent of women in our multi-market sample are making health care decisions for others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The committee includes the leaders of its clinical practice committee (the dean and the vice dean for practice); its Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (a hybrid research-practice center); and its quality, supply chain, analytics, marketing, contracting, systems and procedures, finance, and planning functions.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. While the technology supporting sales process have clearly evolved, the traditional sales strategies proffered by sales gurus 20 or 30 years ago have not kept pace with market needs.

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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

I talked with Ryan Buell , an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, who studies the intersection of operations and customer behavior. Cinemark theater’s new self-service kiosks have “had concession spending per person climb for 32 straight quarters.” ” So why the uptick?

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Banking Technology Norton Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Invitations to visit plants and operations in their districts helped members of Congress to see and hear directly why trade matters. is not on “offense”—pushing to open markets—the U.S. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, is a free trader who has shown a willingness to urge his colleagues to vote for trade.

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Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8