Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Have those with MBAs specialized in strategy, marketing, or entrepreneurship? 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.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American leadership in the clean-energy sector extends beyond solar and wind to natural gas, which is much cleaner than other carbon-based fuels and is abundant in the United States. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

Energy 12

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So it is with innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8