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- 18 Feb 2015
- News
Reinvent Your Sales Process While Still Hitting Your Numbers
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Now Is the Time to Shake Up Your Sales Processes
- 27 Mar 2015
- News
The Sales Director Who Turned Work into a Fantasy Sports Competition
- 30 Jul 2013
- News
You Found Your Product-Market Fit. Now What?
- 20 Jul 2016
- News
To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
can be its own source of value.” Citing a family outing to Crate & Barrel, De Freitas describes the care a sales associate showed in packaging their purchases and loading them into the car. It could have ended with the painful View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
algorithms, photographed automatically, and offered for sale on its online marketplace. ThredUp is a tech company in the thrift-store business. Processing 100,000 unique items a day takes careful automation...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year totaled more than $26 billion, the result of a broad position in...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999) Dream Teen I was a View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
situations that challenge his loyalties, conscience, and sense of duty. The book, which will be made into a movie, took Kim 20 years to write. Kim sees no conflict between the business and literary parts of his life. “I like doing deals because it’s a View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says...
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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
overwhelming. In five days, we had more than 250,000 pounds. We had to go back on the radio and appeal to people to stop sending checks because we had no way to even process it. And it was a moment of a deep connection with humanity for...
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