Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Merijn te Booij, Genesys’s chief marketing officer, decided to stop waiting for the perfect candidate to appear though established channels.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” Now to ensure implementation, a strategic planning team must identify some project- or program-level actions. Strategic planning is a journey, not a project. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

Strategic Planning 14

Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

The firm then tasked each employee with a specific project to cut costs, armed with their tools and training. They like the notion of using experienced improvement experts (internal or external) to drive projects with short ramp-ups and delivery times. However, the push approach comes with complications.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. Have they, perhaps, left off the CV some venture gone astray?

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Last week I arrived home from work to see my 8th grade son toiling away on a science fair project with his classmate Marc. In this farmer's market of ideas, we can place our 140-character wares on display, and begin to identify those who potentially see the world as we do. Based on my experience, here are a few suggestions.

Micromanagement 22

Micromanagement Hammer Drucker Short-term 22

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In a provocative and saucy book, It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For , Spence and coauthor Haley Rushing explain the business strategies and competitive ideas behind many of the one-of-a-kind organizations he has studied or worked with over the years, from BMW to Whole Foods Market to the U.S.

Hammer 15

Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Marketer Simon Sinek has noted that , “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. Mahatma Gandhi, and Harriet Tubman.

Leadership 10

Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 10

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. around its introduction.”

Govindarajan 73

Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The Nonprofit Overhead Cost Project at Indiana University reported that, of 126,956 tax forms they studied, half of the organizations reported a hard-to-believe 0% fundraising cost, and one-quarter of charities with revenues between $1 million and $5 million reported a 0% fundraising cost. They're using hammers where scalpels are required.

Proposal 13

Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 13

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Impact investing is in part reconciling what markets may not be serving well.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Without extra headcount, we’ll need to limit the scope of a project. “Say no!”

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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.” In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What’s the problem?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Sometimes their faces are blurred, not to protect their privacy but to project their guilt. The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Hammer PR Sharpe 8