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Brian Mahoney

Brian Mahoney
Managing Partner and Head of Client Services @ Percept Research
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Percept Research Celebrates 10th Anniversary with New Logo

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Thursday, Mar 28, 2013

Since 2003, Percept Research has aided more than 250 corporate and higher education organizations capture actionable stakeholder feedback to drive innovation. The North Carolina-based market research consultancy also embraces this approach by consistently innovating the firm’s services based on client insights. Parker Ress, the firm’s graphic designer, created a commemorative logo to celebrate the firm’s 10th anniversary with this in mind.

Logo Design

As we set out to create a logo that captured the benefits of our brand, we developed a concept to demonstrate our philosophy of engaging feedback to drive innovation as a continuous improvement cycle. Additionally, circular motion of the number ten matches the swirl in our original logo which symbolizes an ‘eye’ to represent human ‘perception.’ The color scheme celebrates the tradition of silver for the 10th anniversary. 

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Topics: Anniversary, New Logo

Percept Research Attends 2013 EMBA Council Southeast Regional Meeting

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Thursday, Mar 7, 2013
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Topics: Barbara Coward, Brian Mahoney, EMBAC, Conference

Eric Small Joins Percept Research as Market Research Consultant

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013

Percept Research, a leading market research consultancy, announced today that it has further strengthened its team with the addition of Eric Small as a Senior Consultant. Eric’s role will include methodology, design, instrumentation, analysis, and reporting for the firm’s academic and corporate clients.

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Topics: Staff, Eric Small

Percept Research Presents Trends at 2012 Executive MBA Conference

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Thursday, Oct 25, 2012

 

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Topics: Brian Mahoney, EMBAC, Conference, Executive MBA

Percept Research Selects Freshbooks to Enhance Billing Experience

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012

Percept Research is pleased to announce our adoption of the FreshBooks Cloud Accounting service for our invoice distribution and payment collection platform.  After nine years of sending invoices in PDF format attached to emails, we switched to FreshBooks to enable our clients to approve cost estimates, view project status and make payments online through one simple interface.

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UNICON Selects Percept Research to Conduct Executive Education Study

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Monday, Jul 9, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Topics: press release, UNICON, executive education

Senior Research Consultant Penny Oslund Joins Percept Research

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Percept Research, a leading management education market research consultancy, announced that veteran business school administrator, Penny Oslund, has joined the client services team as a Senior Consultant. Penny will lead consulting engagements involving business school strategy, program innovation, operations, and brand management and serve as a key resource in translating client research into actionable recommendations.

Penny Oslund served as UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Executive Director, MBA for Executives Programs for 20 years until her retirement in June of 2011. She was responsible for the school’s three executive MBA programs. Serving 300+ students per year, these programs have been highly ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek, US News, the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.  She led an outstanding team which consistently earned high marks for their focus on student satisfaction and professional development.

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Topics: Staff, Penny Oslund

Percept Research Presents at 2012 GMAC MBAR Leadership Conference

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Monday, Feb 6, 2012

Brian Mahoney, Managing Partner of Percept Research, presented at the 2012 Leadership Conference from February 1-3 hosted by the Graduate Management Admission Council and MBA Roundtable in Coral Gables, Florida.  Mr. Mahoney discussed strategies on conducting pre-design market research for the launch of a new graduate management program.

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Topics: Brian Mahoney, GBC Roundtable, Program Demand, GMAC

Percept Research Attends 2011 MBA Roundtable Symposium

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011
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Topics: Brian Mahoney, GBC Roundtable, MBA Curricular Innovation

Percept Research Attends Executive MBA Council 2011 Conference

Posted by Brian Mahoney on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2011

Marinda Hamann, Michelle Maki, and Brian Mahoney of Percept Research, attended the 2011 Executive MBA Council Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida from October 16-19.

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Topics: Brian Mahoney, EMBAC, Executive MBA, George Bobinski