Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. This can be part of your strategy.

Products 50

Products Productivity Prahalad Open-book 50

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. In fact, about half of all new ventures created are actually created by hybrid entrepreneurs—individuals who keep their day jobs and start a venture on the side. [5]

Innovation 82

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 82

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Even so, for those entrepreneurs in flyover country, our digital world makes it easy for investors to put money into companies they believe in, no matter where they are. Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

New tools, resources, and intermediaries are allowing a new generation of serious entrepreneurs to begin to bridge the worlds of hacker space and industry. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value. Just as with software 15 years ago, start-up manufacturing is beginning to graduate to the bigger time.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

Quinn 11

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

Venture Capitalist 18

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. What value that cannot be protected will be replaced in the form of new business opportunities for entrepreneurs who can design solutions to pressing problems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

When they do occur, they usually come from insurgent entrepreneurs who founded companies such as Nest or Netflix (today), or Eastman Kodak or Ford Motor (over a century ago). Since 2013 Schwab has added several new elements of value to its services. Measuring Marketing Insights. “Where’s our iPhone?”

Customer Loyalty 8

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Innovation Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? We live in a time when many of the great entrepreneurs are associated with dramatic dreams. So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like? So what about China?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

An Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by Huawei in 2013 found that “a lack of perceived value” is one of the main things that keeps a lid on digital adoption and usage rates. Costs are low because each school has just one employee, who uses a tablet with tailored content. It opens a new school every 2.5

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

According to a Kauffman Foundation study , 72% of entrepreneurs surveyed come from self-described middle class backgrounds, and another 22%reported being from upper lower class backgrounds. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Most of the criticism has had to do with the relationship between cost and benefit. To explore this idea of elite degree fatigue — and to figure out what might be driving it — I spoke with entrepreneurs, executives, and hiring managers at a range of tech companies. The college degree has been catching a lot of flak lately.

Software 8

Software Engineering Incentives CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Today, Shenzhen-based DJI , of which one of us is a board member, holds a global market share of 70% in consumer drones and offers a window into the future of competition from China. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true. Burton Law LLC.) .

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010, the study revealed that couples often establish a business together because one spouse (usually the female) has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. Unfortunately, previous studies reveal a different picture.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Entrepreneur Sample Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question we face each year at my organization, Echoing Green, when we evaluate thousands of business plans from social entrepreneurs seeking start-up capital and support. And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad. social entrepreneurs now have more options. They are not alone.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables. THE RISE OF UX.

Trends 8

Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Many organizations and entrepreneurs miss this lesson. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. In a digital world full of product clutter, the best marketing campaigns spend nearly nothing.

Media 12

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. But the current R&D tax credit does nothing for those two gals in a garage.

Stage-Gate 15

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. But the current R&D tax credit does nothing for those two gals in a garage.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 8