The accounting firm of Price/Stern/Sloan is a reference to the name of Leonard Stern's publishing company.
The award ceremony is filmed on the same set as the Chief's office, redressed to look like a small lecture hall.
The title is based on the movie/musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967). The original Broadway production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opened at the Forty-sixth Street Theater in New York on October 14, 1961, ran for 1417 performances and won the 1962 Tony Awards for the Best Musical and Book and was nominated for Best Score.