Dunn also emphasized up- and cross-selling rather than improving basic customer service and online offerings.
Instead, the suits say, the seminars were taught by unqualified instructors and were designed to extract as much money from attendees as possible, urging them to max out credit cards and using high-pressure sales tactics that emphasized "up-selling" attendees to get them to buy more expensive course offerings.
Empirical research has consistently shown that that the factor most strongly associated with successful product development is "the existence of a high-quality, rigorous new product process: one that emphasizes up-front homework, tough Go/Kill decision points, sharp early product definition, and flexibility" [ 18].
Along the way, Olson reveals cultural differences in teaching math: American classrooms emphasize racking up correct answers quickly; in Japan, students are encouraged to struggle through problems.
That decision angered some of the people involved in the alliance, which has tended to emphasize building up a "progressive infrastructure" of research groups and issue advocacy organizations rather than winning elections.
At the retail level, large quantities of food are wasted due to quality standards that over emphasize appearance (up to ⅓ of total food waste).
When he speaks to students, he almost always emphasizes living up to their potential.
In the early 1990s, it started emphasizing showing up at an accident scene and handling situations in real time, according to a 2004 article by Michael Hammer in The Harvard Business Review.
It would emphasize the up-front investments that Democrats like in order to achieve the long-run fiscal solvency on which Republicans insist.
Mr. Van Bramer, community affairs manager for the Queens Borough Public Library, emphasized cleaning up the streets, as well as increased financing for day care programs in Lefrak City and for libraries districtwide.
