Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

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. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Task management. It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools. . around its introduction.”

Govindarajan 73

Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

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

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

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously. So here’s the money management industry.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

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). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

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. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8