The Horizons Tracker
JULY 13, 2022
University spinouts represent a major source of innovation but a recent report into the sector by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub and Beauhurst suggests all is not as healthy as it might be. The researchers have tracked over 50,000 high-growth businesses across the UK since 2011, with 1,628 of these identified as spinouts.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 20, 2014
How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. ” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam). It's something that U.S.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 7, 2013
Nevertheless, our look at the reactions of 34 incumbent firms to "free" entrants across 26 product markets showed that launching a "free" strategy is too often a last resort, if undertaken at all (See my article, " Competing Against Free ," with co-authors Jeff Dyer and Nile Hatch, in the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review ).
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2011
The smart money went along, with Groupon valued at $15-20 billion, according to some observers anticipating rich pickings in the IPO-to-come. Not long after that was published, on Friday, July 8, 2011, the Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled " Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats." But not so fast.
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