Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

That's the finding from our recent research, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Research , which reveals a surprising fact about retail assortments: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product category grow engaged and interested in quality and are prepared to stretch their budget accordingly.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Retail Price 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Whether you’re looking to free up time, streamline, or generate more usable data , the industry’s best equipment will make that possible. Best Benefits.

Hammer 68

Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

People are already forgetting how he took on budget problems inherited from his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, and helped the city successfully live within its means. And there was Armand Hammer, CEO of Occidental Petroleum, who put in place a long-term incentive plan for himself with a ten-year payout horizon — when he was in his 90s.

Long-term 15

Long-term Hammer Organizational Behavior CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? Respondents said that when their leader clams up or blows up under pressure, their team members have lower morale; are more likely to miss deadlines, budgets, and quality standards; and act in ways that drive customers away.

Team 14

Team Management Stress Report 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Budgets were cut and the Learning part of the organization dried up while the focus snapped back in line with the notion that wisdom and decisions could only come from the few and learning for the many was a luxury no one could afford. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#.

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. At this point the idea may have little budget, management support, or visibility within the company.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Oregon's Attorney General John Kroger has introduced a bill that would strip the tax-deductible status from donations made to charities that spend less than 30% of their annual budget on services over the course of a three-year period. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The law is intended to weed out scams.

Proposal 14

Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. Who had the final say on our strategic direction? Print runs?

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” .” Industrial musicals weren’t merely about camaraderie and a few chuckles. “There was a lot of minutia that had to be crammed into the shows,” says Murphy.

Morale 8

Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Is it more important to create a better designed circuit board or website, or to keep to the development costs within the budget set by upper management? It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

Team 65

Team Hammer Software Project 65

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” There were media outlets with whom clients’ budgets had been placed, and there were other vendors – an office landlord, software suppliers, and others – with whom Home Run was committed to lengthy contracts.

Media 9

Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

That sounds a lot like Philip Tetlock’s hedgehogs and foxes , where the people who keep hammering at it and don’t care if their forecasts are wrong are more likely to be wrong. And those who really believe that they’ve got the right method will just explain away all of their failures and just keep pushing their model.

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 8

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!”

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Now we spend a significant portion of our marketing budget on paid social ads, drafting and placing hundreds every month in multiple languages. Not only are engagement rates bound to plummet if you hammer users on their home turf with repetitive messaging, but you may end up losing more business than you gain.

Advertising 9

Advertising Media Audience Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. If, for example, a company’s budgeting process is inherently conservative and makes it difficult for first-line employees to get funding for small-scale experiments, any investment in innovation skills will be wasted.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Moreover, China’s subsidies are shielded by unpublished government budgets, internal instructions, oral directives, and a law that allows commercial information to be treated as “state secrets.” EU, and Japan have agreed to or are hammering out would represent a big step toward achieving that end. ” The U.S.,

Proposal 10

Proposal Technology Hammer Policies 10