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.

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

Senior and middle managers are REALLY good at figuring out what’s “real” and what’s not. Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. Pity the manager who keeps showing up with unprepared and can’t get on board; it’s not a pretty sight. They may be chickens (involved), but they’re not pigs (committed).

Planning 236

Planning Succession Metrics Commitment 236

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

Positioning 8

Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

As economists who’ve been using lots of government data for a long time, we’ve always been delighted that the federal government had systematic, professionally managed programs for collecting data and publishing important information. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Last fall, Forbes reported that Snapchat had begun using geofilters (overlays that Snapchat users can put on top of images) in an attempt to poach employees from other top startups. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. 1 form of self-expression.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. The biggest challenges are people and processes.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. ” he asked, pointing to the report. “Besides, lots of experts say that too many people view comp as a hammer and every problem as a nail.

Case Study 14

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

A 2018 report from the King’s Fund explored the diffusion of innovation throughout the NHS, and found that there was ample entrepreneurship on an individual level, but scaling those innovations across the entire service was very difficult. ” Variable outcomes. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8

Innovation 104

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 104

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. “I managed a team of 10” doesn’t say much. Further Reading.

How To 15

How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This was in a report called From the Margins to the Mainstream that did a lot to introduce impact investing to the wider investing world. Now Drexler and Noble are out with a new report, Charting the Course , that gets more into the nitty gritty of how one might go about investing with impact. So here’s the money management industry.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Social media is the new “satisfaction” survey or report. Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Return on quality product.

ROI 50

ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. Manage your assumptions and judgements. I’d heard from the company’s HR manager that this executive was especially cruel toward one colleague. Charles Orr/Getty Images. Rebecca Knight.

Engineering 15

Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. To give a complete picture of your results, report multiple outcomes. Companies experiment when they don’t know what will work best. It can seriously bias your results and reduce the insight you receive.

Hammer 8

Hammer Advertising How To Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

In my study of over 20,000 employees, those who felt respected by their leader reported 92% greater focus and prioritization and 55% more engagement. 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.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15