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. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Market prices would prevail, the regulations state, “except when municipal government officials believe it is necessary to implement government-guided pricing.” There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” There would be no more subsidies.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Think of the equity of a brand in terms of a bank account.

Brand 8

Brand Banking Apparel Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In the cities that have taxi medallions, their prices are plummeting, reflecting investors’ views that these old matchmakers don’t have a bright future. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea. More importantly, it’s easy to talk yourself into a bad idea.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

What effect does it have if we innovate? 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. He’s just a trend analyst. Fisher doesn’t think trends are important at all; instead he believes in causation.

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

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. So I wanted to see if Campbell could make sense of the prizes and the current state of academic knowledge about asset prices.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

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. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8