Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. Second, technology “platforms” undergird new products more than in the past. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

Innovation 18

Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. He offered the product to small businesses, and customers lapped it up. Certainly not VCs. And play he did.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2012

The idea that an itinerant New York City candy vendor pulls in $150 a day ought to have spawned one of the great feel-good financial news stories of 2011. billion people — earn their money like Alex, selling legal products in a quasi-legal way , and their efforts account for perhaps $10 trillion in economic activity.

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Information Incubator Licensing Video 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, Groupon posted a net loss of $113.9 The company's product is not more valuable to users as more people adopt the platform. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Ellen Kullman , CEO of DuPont, talked about the innovative public-private partnerships DuPont's India unit has forged with various state governments to increase the productivity and profitability of farmers and improve food availability by making resilient seeds available at affordable prices.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Most of us couldn’t have foreseen many of those segments’ second-phase products: live blogs, interactive content, streaming music, playlists, and peer-to-peer banking services such as those offered by Transferwise and Zopa. Business education — a field near to my heart — is one of them.

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Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. “Our first product will be about the size of a dishwasher, then we’ll move up to a refrigerator, a shipping container, and finally a plant-size machine,” Etosha told me.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

This bid to create local green jobs quickly foundered as the company fell behind commodity Chinese manufacturers, then desperately tried to move production to China , before finally selling itself to a Chinese firm for pennies on the dollar at the end of the year.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Today we’re seeing a maturing of the industry, and entrepreneurs now want to build products as well. Or they want to combine products and services. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. He plans to make significant R&D investments, hire lots of sales people to approach enterprise customers, expand in emerging markets and develop entirely new product categories.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, I wrote about Akamai, a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet's fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues. Core sectors.

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