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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This is driven by big technological advancements, as more and more people gain access to infrastructure vital for commerce and entrepreneurship to thrive. Here are four observations that stand out.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too One possible explanation is that I was traveling most of those weeks. I’ve marked it and subsequent travel on the plot. I feel certain that I don’t travel because I eat too much. I simply do not know yet.

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