Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

They would have preferred a lower-profile approach that relied on service center managers — not Six Sigma experts — to do the heavy lifting of identifying inefficiencies and making changes. Many executives are attracted to push approaches, especially senior managers who need big results fast. Which camp is right?

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But unless you''re on hiring Ground Zero, it''s tough to understand exactly what this puzzle looks like, let alone how to put it together. Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience.

Hammer 8

Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program. Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. ” Once you’ve identified these internal counselors, you can start determining how to leverage their wisdom. rawpixel/unsplash.

Wiseman 10

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it? Everyone would like to be a player and Hollywood is littered with the wreckage of careers of people who looked at the entertainment industry and thought, "I would love to be a big shot and, anyhow, how hard can it be?" Plus, eventually every grocer wants to be a P&G.

Hammer 8

Hammer Creativity Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. The result will be innovation. But in reality, it was more personal.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

But in the effort to forecast they’ve done a lot of great things — they’ve introduced leading indicators, they’ve created econometric models, they’ve created important institutions like the National Bureau of Economic Research, and they’ve come up with ideas of how to conceptualize the economy. What effect does it have if we innovate?

Open-book 8

Open-book Trends Hammer Credit Rating 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

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. Managing yourself'

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms. Collaboration.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8