Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Timing is everything – Earlier in this article, I discussed how classic gaming had a pattern to the enemy attacks. Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. As Sam defeated this challenge, he threw one of the hammers at Donkey Kong and said he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Relate Articles: Training is out. Maybe it’s YOU!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Relate Articles: Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Performance standards hammered out. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Relate Articles: Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Here are some of the most salient, which I discussed in a session I moderated last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit on " Digital Marketing in the Political Arena ," guest-starring Harvard Kennedy School professor Nicco Mele and fellow HBR blogger Michael Schrage , who recently wrote an astute piece about polling.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Merijn te Booij, Genesys’s chief marketing officer, decided to stop waiting for the perfect candidate to appear though established channels.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” Consider the SweeTarts brand from Nestle USA.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In this farmer's market of ideas, we can place our 140-character wares on display, and begin to identify those who potentially see the world as we do. This type of short-term alliance allows us to further test our working relationship, which might later lead to collaboration on an article, and so forth. Certainly I have. Share an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

This wonderfully written article puts the reader in the shoes of Bernie Coyle, who wants to hire 40 people to work in a new egg-white-extraction factory in the aptly named town of Fort Recovery, Ohio. But unless you''re on hiring Ground Zero, it''s tough to understand exactly what this puzzle looks like, let alone how to put it together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. We identified significant platforms based on three different measures of importance: the five largest publicly traded ones by market cap; the five largest nonpublic startups by most recent valuation; and the five largest by web traffic.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

There are libraries of books and articles offering counsel on how to steer clear of the profit-sucking aspects of competition—including via white spaces and blue oceans—and their advice can be invaluable. The lesson seems clear: If you can avoid competing, by all means do so. Buffet has done quite well following his own advice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Reflecting this broader viewpoint, the company began to expand its market footprint, by, for instance, investing in a start-up that planned to sell furniture via the internet. In contrast to Starbucks, the Virgin brand strategy is a high-wire act that requires incredible management and marketing skill and creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Brand-Building and Customer Connection.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. Managing Cash.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. It’s a quite technical article, and while our conversation was formula-free it got pretty wonky as well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. Business Writing Article. Further Reading. How to Write a Cover Letter. Open strong.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. “Besides, lots of experts say that too many people view comp as a hammer and every problem as a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Design appropriate to the aim.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But in reality, it was more personal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Promotions comprise a rich set of tools, and it’s no longer enough to just pull out a hammer every time there’s something that needs doing. But for major marketed promotions, that’s not always achievable or practical. How does response vary across tactics (discount depths and promotion structure)?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. Without a larger marketing budget, sales will drop. Without a hammer, we’re more likely to think of a shoe as a good tool to get a nail pounded into the wall. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

EU, and Japan are also tackling steps inside and outside the WTO to combat forced technology transfers both in China’s domestic market and, through mergers and acquisitions, abroad. EU, and Japan have agreed to or are hammering out would represent a big step toward achieving that end. They must be reined in.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

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