Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But corporate development and M&A groups within companies need to apply the same rigor and imagination whether they’re evaluating the shiny objects outside of their companies or the seemingly dusty objects they already own. .” This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

Brand 10

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Is it more important to create a better designed circuit board or website, or to keep to the development costs within the budget set by upper management? It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

Team 64

Team Hammer Software Project 64

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Home Run’s clients relied on the company to help develop and implement their media strategies. He would have to be forthright and creative in dealing with his people as well.

Media 8

Media Hammer Software Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. While this belief is true at times, it leads us to underuse our creativity and our determination to work with what we have. Without a larger marketing budget, sales will drop. His answer blew me away.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 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. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. Hiring and promoting for creativity.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8