Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Strategies change, leaders change, markets change and technology changes at a frightening pace. None of those domains remains in stasis over time — strategies change, leaders (and their related passions) change, markets develop, and technologies are created. Failures tend to "fail" or to be abandoned relatively quickly.

Innovation 15

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. This means priming the pump through joint sales calls and other marketing efforts. Every partnership is like moving a stubborn mule. Think Small.

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Succession Early Adopters Hammer Price 284

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. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

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 11

Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

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. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. That includes all the successful online platforms that dominate the market cap listings and headlines today.

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Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 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

APRIL 11, 2014

Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. In this lengthy investigation of the company, writer Max Chafkin says founder Shai Agassi "made great Kool-Aid and then drank it all himself."

Hammer 8

Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Complete, strengthen and extend the EU Single Market and the EU Digital Single Market. of total NHS spending devoted to the adoption of innovation.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. 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.

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 8

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.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

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. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

To begin, our highly interconnected and global economy means that seemingly unrelated developments can affect each other. Consider the Miami condo market, which has rebounded quite nicely since 2008 on the back of strong demand from Latin American buyers. For various reasons, though, the specialist era is waning. Why's that?

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

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. China’s subsidies and tech-transfer practices pose a major threat to the global trade order. They must be reined in.

Proposal 10

Proposal Technology Hammer Policies 10

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.

Advertising 8

Advertising Hammer PR Sharpe 8