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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Census and American Community Survey for the years 1980 and 2010 to examine three major factors that contribute to gender equality in the labor force: women’s representation in management, the occupational gender segregation among managers, and the gender wage gaps that vary across managerial occupations. And if so, how? Have the 2.6

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business

Our products work with apps or without apps. Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. I know because I’ve been there.

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Consultant Ninja: How Consultants Manage Frequent Flyer Miles.

Consultant Ninja

Monday, September 27, 2010. Labels: Consulting , Productivity , Visualization. September 28, 2010 at 10:41 AM. September 28, 2010 at 11:40 AM. October 10, 2010 at 10:40 AM. October 10, 2010 at 11:13 AM. October 28, 2010 at 11:06 PM. November 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM. November 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM.

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Perspectives on “The 24-Hour Customer” (Strategy, Marketing, and Innovation Book) in Context of Marketing Segmentation

Steve Shu Consulting

Adrian Ott cites the example of P&G’s Febreeze, which was a great product that initially failed in the market because people forgot to use it. To bring Adrian Ott’s framework back full circle, she addresses the challenges of products in each Time-ographics quadrant and key tools that can be used for each.

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Is Behavioral Economics Used in Business?

Steve Shu Consulting

Back in 2010, I was part of a team that started one of the early behavioral finance centers with one of the investment manufacturing firms in the United States. This can include wanting to do holistic innovation that touches on service, products, and applications.

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Consultant Ninja: Why PowerPoint is Bad: Management Consulting.

Consultant Ninja

Friday, July 23, 2010. Source: Microsoft Q4 2010 Webcast. The worst bit is obviously the line "office 2010 is off to a great start" I think it should be replaced with: "Office 2010 should be taken out the back of the chemical sheds and shot" July 25, 2010 at 5:10 PM. August 19, 2010 at 4:40 PM.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.