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In this "refreshingly different" high-toned business book, three leading business school professors take to America's back roads in search of offbeat small businesses—enterprises that hold valuable lessons for executives and entrepreneurs everywhere (Bloomberg Businessweek). While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and embarked on a life-changing road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off. Instead of teaching the tried-and-true case studies involving GE and Microsoft, these three men decided to pull their heads out of their ivory towers and search for...
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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
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- Author
- Michael Mazzeo & Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781455583980
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Management, Business
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (112 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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