Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. About the Authors.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. Innovation efforts fail anytime they fail to deliver on all three of these domains strongly enough.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. There can be no reward without risk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

That's the finding from our recent research, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Research , which reveals a surprising fact about retail assortments: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product category grow engaged and interested in quality and are prepared to stretch their budget accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. could lose its edge quickly, both in innovation and deployment. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. Consider the SweeTarts brand from Nestle USA.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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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. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

But the Doritos Locos Taco, a faux cheese-caked calorie coffin, is seemingly an innovative job creator. “It It includes relying on its relationship with Frito Lay (the maker of Doritos) for a competitive advantage; focusing on the treatment of its employees; and marketing a healthier "Cantina Bell" line to adult consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

These are the kinds of innovations being implemented in the Netherlands, which has moved beyond a dams-and-dikes mentality to embrace the country''s relationship with water, because in Holland, water is everywhere and rising all the time. Or floating office buildings in Miami? How about artificial islands in other low-lying U.S.

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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. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center. This is not what you’ll get if you hire a Chief AI Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Reflecting this broader viewpoint, the company began to expand its market footprint, by, for instance, investing in a start-up that planned to sell furniture via the internet. When the brand does “good things,” such as introduce a highly innovative new product, a deposit is put into the brand bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

What effect does it have if we innovate? That sounds a lot like Philip Tetlock’s hedgehogs and foxes , where the people who keep hammering at it and don’t care if their forecasts are wrong are more likely to be wrong. I think there’s a big marketing side to this story, and the ones who were good marketers ultimately succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. And the beauty of innovative sectors such as impact investing is that we can experiment, collaborate and try to — even in a very small way — reconcile some of what didn’t work previously.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago. We identified significant platforms based on three different measures of importance: the five largest publicly traded ones by market cap; the five largest nonpublic startups by most recent valuation; and the five largest by web traffic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. The result will be innovation. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

IBM's marketers apparently love promoting machines that make Mensa members look like morons. — who use targeted technical innovation to cheat to compete from home against human contestants. People will constantly revise, enhance and extend their devices in a never-ending Red Queen's Race of innovative effectiveness.

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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. Yes — because my preference is to invest in people I know and like. Lesson 2: Establish rules of engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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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.].

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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. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) If employees don't want to change, they have power.

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