Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 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. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Unusually excellent leaders deliberately create high-risk, low-cost environments – a.k.a. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. There can be no reward without risk.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

New users were attracted to the platform by large discounts on their first trip, often equivalent to the full cost of the ride. But neither company could afford the high level of subsidies (and resulting costs from driver corruption) needed to win new drivers and riders and new markets. It was costly, but it still worked.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In Davos we had a bunch of hardcore mainstream investors explore whether social impact bonds to combat childhood obesity could fit into their investment strategy — because with childhood obesity, 20 years down the line you have huge drain on the health system, you can therefore monetize the cost. So here’s the money management industry.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

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. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on. Disruptor of the Year?

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. The capital asset pricing model was supposed to allow companies to calculate their cost of capital in a consistent way.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8