Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. These are the products and infrastructure elements such as solar panels and smart electricity grids that are reducing our reliance on petroleum and coal. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Retraining requires extra time they often don’t have,m and it can grind productivity to a halt. Innovative Appearance. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. When Uber entered the Chinese market, it soon learned it had to change its core product. There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.”

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? They create resentment among employees who are giving it their all, and they drag down productivity.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15