Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

Management 15

Management P&L Incubator Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. European taxpayers have funded much of the brainpower that stimulated technological innovation and economic growth in the U.S.

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

federal research investments enabled the invention of the magnetic storage drive, lithium-ion batteries, and liquid crystal display technologies that paved the way for the next generation of consumer electronics in the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion.

Innovation 11

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. And across 11 countries Azuri Technologies provides lighting to villagers not connected to the grid by offering solar panels on micropayment plans through a mobile money service. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Startups need money, too, of course.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Of course, part of this is simply the reality that TFA sets forth to recruit individuals with leadership potential--and is delivering on this aim.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. That’s an enormous mistake.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. It goes without saying that finance is an essential element in entrepreneurial innovation, but don’t start with the angel investors or VCs. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Week after week, the field notes revealed that nearly every person in the room contributed at least one comment or joke during these 60-minute gatherings.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. Shared work spaces and other entrepreneurship communities and incubators, such as “1776” in Washington, D.C.,

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. Whether its an internally built effort or something you incubate through an acquisition (we've acquired over a dozen companies), keep it separate operationally. Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion. P&G should follow suit.

Brand 12

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. In our incubation methodology at 1M/1M , we actively encourage entrepreneurs to engage in services businesses. They invested $22.3 million in us in 2007.”.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s a situation that the EU’s European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is hoping to improve after it was awarded a 25% increase in its budget by the European Commission, in part to address the east-west entrepreneurial divide.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position. A major reason for this deficit is insufficient investment.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8