Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Don't Drink Your Own Kool-Aid A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Start-Up that Was Going to Change the World Fast Company Better Place was the car-battery start-up that was going to revolutionize transportation until it didn''t. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

Hammer 8

Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Many leaders don’t understand that they are an integral part of the motivational ecosystem in their companies. One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks. But many leaders have little idea of how to boost or sustain that level of motivation.

Motivation 8

Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

It is also a great American export, being one of the most-watched sports activities globally, perhaps number two in the world. A virtue that will be tested this off season as the league and the players' union try to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement.) million viewers. Here are my favorite 4 quarters of ideas.

Franchising 15

Franchising Merchandising Hammer Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. .”

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. And if you’re viewed as a sought-after expert in your field, clients will often hire your company just so they have access to your skills. Career planning Global business Personal effectiveness' In Australia, it’s tall poppies — and the tallest one gets its head whacked off.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Brand Hammer Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

As publicity stunts go, having IBM's Watson beat the cognitive stuffing out of all-time Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is the niftiest bit of artificial intelligence show biz since Deep Blue globally humiliated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. IBM's marketers apparently love promoting machines that make Mensa members look like morons.

Hammer 13

Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Congress, 3) key companies and trade organizations from the U.S. Singapore Free Trade Agreement, Koh had a U.S. counterpart — Ralph Ives from the Special Trade Representative’s office — with whom he interacted extensively.

Advice 8

Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The authors suggest that this is predominantly because the majority of investment in new technology is done by a relatively small number of large companies. Capital funds and investment for globalizing, with the costs involved in scaling across Europe greater than when doing so domestically. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

Innovation 125

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. I am okay with this view, though the imagery was still very scary.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

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

JUNE 4, 2012

To begin, our highly interconnected and global economy means that seemingly unrelated developments can affect each other. But perhaps a slowdown in China, which can take away the "bid" for certain industrial commodities, might adversely affect many of the Latin American extraction-based companies, countries, and economies. Why's that?

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Unlike economy-wide supports such as an R&D tax credit, WTO rules prohibit subsidies to specific companies because of the competitive advantage they confer.) Although the U.S., production. In May, the U.S.,

Proposal 10

Proposal Technology Hammer Policies 10