What the public is getting is a boutique merger advisory and investment management firm whose success--and presumably, value--rises and falls with the skills and sales ability of its senior bankers.
To have effective data means focusing on the quality (accuracy, scope, timeliness and recency), usability (ease of use, concise presentation, etc.), accessibility, sales mobility (ability to transact with customers regardless of location), and intelligence (trends, recommendations, profile matching, etc.), according to Deepa Mani of the Indian School of Business, a member of the research team.
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For example, if you're interviewing for a finance position working closely with the sales division, it's likely you'll be asked about your ability to forecast sales.
How does your prior sales performance, organizational capability and ability to grow customer relationships support your new sales projections?
If Facebook was able to merge its ability to drive sales and convert that to a mobile platform, the company would be looking at even more astounding numbers than it produced on Tuesday.
Gross margins and its ability to drive sales without heavy promotions and discounts will be very important as we head into the back to school season which will be hugely important for Aeropostale.
Despite the world of catalog commerce being greatly expanded by the world of e-commerce, states must still rely on a catalog-era U.S. Supreme Court case that limits their ability to collect sales and use tax.
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An entrepreneur gets no break on his or her taxes for hiring an engineer or a sales person to enhance the ability to grow a business, but the purchase of a new truck to replace an old one is fully deductible.
Scores, however, have not yet reached the place they were before the recall, when the Korean company was posting strong sales, boosted by its ability to provide cars as its Japanese rivals suffered delays and other setbacks in the aftermath of the March Earthquake.
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Previously, stores were only required to collect sales tax on goods shipped to states where they have a physical presence, however now state governments would obtain the ability to collect an Internet sales tax from businesses headquartered outside of their respective state borders.
Pfizer said the reduction in sales representatives would not affect its ability to sell its drugs.
The present case involves lost sales -- not a lost ability to be a viable market participant.
At heart sales relies on empathy or the ability to resonate with others.
And this new drug, Torcetrapib, was supposed to be able to replace Lipitor in sales, because it has the ability to raise your levels of so-called good cholesterol.
The National Association of Realtors credits the 10% rise in single-family second-home sales since 1997 to the new ability to trade down and use profits for a second home.
In a note to investors earlier this month, Pacific Crest Securities analyst Brent Bracelin, credited the group with playing a big role in HP's ability to beat his sales estimates over the past seven quarters.
Sales are still made based on your ability to establish and cultivate a relationship with your customer.
The CFFT will receive royalties on any potential commercial sales of future products, enriching their ability to continue to invest in research.
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Whirlpool ( WHR - news - people )'s ability to weather the global sales slump, leading it to beat Wall Street's forecast.
Undaunted by having to absorb so many new properties, Cisco kept racking up 40% annual sales growth and relying on an omniscient ability to track orders and forecast demand.
Apple's "sales grew ahead of the company's ability to keep up, " said Duncan Clark, chairman of consulting firm BDA China Ltd.
For states with low or no income tax, the ability for their residents to deduct sales tax instead is only a token benefit.
One provision restricts the ability of drug makers to use sales and marketing personnel to distribute peer reviewed reprints of journal articles that contain off-label information.
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Buoyed by strong sales of its popular RAZR phone and its ability to maintain profit margins in the highly competitive handset business, Motorola has become a big momentum play in recent months.
Over the years, I've heard repeatedly from small business owners who sell in the eBay marketplace and other online channels that expanding Internet sales taxes to all transactions would hurt their ability to grow or create jobs and to fuel the price and service competition that creates value for consumers.
Weinstein says he has doubts about Cypher's ability to make up for sagging drug sales over the long term.
But does the ability to sell translate to motivating a sales team?
As growth ramped up last year, he found that an under-resourced recruitment division stymied his ability to hire and keep pace with sales.
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Competing only on the ability to offer a discount equivalent to sales tax is effectively operating an offshore account, at the expense of your consumers.
And it would need to be serious and severe damage to their ability to market and survive for a sales ban on Samsung kit to be a reasonable legal solution.
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