Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead.

Energy 12

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

Hammer 12

Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 12

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. Friedman: There is a lot of failure in my book, but I think forecasting is a very maligned industry. What follows are edited excerpts from that and a post-Ideacast conversation. Who’s your favorite?

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough.

Innovation 101

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. After a while, they all think alike. Innovators, by contrast, are contrarians.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8