Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. She and the team recognized a palate shift from traditional hard candies to gummier, chewier, and more sour candies. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

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Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

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. Or, what about instituting a daily team huddle where each person shares what they’re focused on for the day? rawpixel/unsplash.

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Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force. It does not require a Chief of AI.

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Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In another scenario, a CEO had one executive on his team whom he really trusted and in whom he could confide. One day, a couple of other members of that company’s executive team made a presentation at a board meeting that didn’t go so well. Because innovation requires it. And it was as if the whole incident had never happened.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. You don’t have to go it alone on AI — partner for capability and capacity.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We want people with entrepreneurial spirit on our team, and actively seek it out. This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Chess supremo Garry Kasparov famously noted after his battles with IBM’s Deep Blue, that an intermediate human player teamed with a computer was better than either an expert human or a super-machine operating independently.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. “I managed a team of 10” doesn’t say much. Did everyone on your team earn promotions? “My rule of thumb is that 95% of what you talk about should be framed as accomplishments,” suggests Heifetz.

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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.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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.

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Incivility can fracture a team, destroying collaboration, splintering members’ sense of psychological safety, and hampering team effectiveness. Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. You and Your Team Series.

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Cooper Hammer Training Film 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. Disruptor of the Year?

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Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8