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When CEOs Make Sales Calls

CEOs can impact sales in B2B settings, but their roles in the sales process must be carefully managed.

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A Better Way to Price B2B Offerings

While B2B suppliers often feel that they must compete on price alone, they have an ability to extract a higher price from their B2B customers and provide greater customer value by focusing on all of the offerings that they provide.

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B2B Research Webinar Series – Automating the B2B Salesperson Pricing Decisions: A Human-Machine Hybrid Approach

This presentation is from a former ISBM Doctoral Support Competition Winner, Yael Karlinsky Shichor. Yael is currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University.

During this 1 hour webinar, Yael presents her research “Automating the B2B Salesperson Pricing Decisions: A Human-Machine Hybrid Approach” for about 30 minutes, followed by comments and feedback from the discussant, Olivier Rubel from the University of California Davis. The remainder of the time is spent on Q&A between the attendees and the presenter.

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B2B Research Webinar Series – Customer Concentration and Firm Performance – Insights from a Cross-Disciplinary Meta-Analysis (Ljubomir Pupovac)

This presentation is from a former ISBM Doctoral Support Competition Winner, Ljubomir Pupovac. Ljubo is currently a Lecturer from UNSW Business School. His research work is titled “Customer Concentration and Firm Performance – Insights From A Cross-Disciplinary Meta-Analysis”. During this 1 hour webinar, the presenter discusses their research for about 30 minutes. Then, a discussant spends 10-15 minutes providing feedback on the research, followed by Q&A. The session discussant is Rajkumar Venkatesan from the University of Virginia.

B2B Research Webinar September 17 2020

B2B Research Webinar Series – A Structural Model of a Multitasking Salesforce: Multidimensional Incentives and Job Design (Minkyung Kim)

This presentation is from a former ISBM Doctoral Support Competition Winner, Minkyung Kim from UNC Chapel Hill. Her research work is titled “A Structural Model of a Multitasking Salesforce:  Multidimensional Incentives and Job Design”. During this 1 hour webinar, the presenter discusses their research for about 30 minutes. Then, a discussant spends 10-15 minutes providing feedback on the research, followed by Q&A. The session discussant is Murali Mantrala from the University of Kansas.