Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures. Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. An ideal response involves a portfolio and pipeline of growth strategies — again, started early enough that they have time to iterate, incubate, and grow. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company blind to the disruptive changes in its marketplace.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, the company selected five out of 105 applicants; in the subsequent year 20 were chosen out of 130. Johnny Ryan, the executive who created FUSION, saw it as a “validator” rather than an incubator: It forced the start-ups to face the hazards of the market, but with support from peers and mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

For example, when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and then WhatsApp for $19 billion two years later, many analysts and investors were astonished by the high price tags. Facebook could have easily created its own end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service, or a social photo sharing app.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Now BancAlliance will leverage Lending Club’s software and vetting process to reach these customers. Build it yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They should take their teams and regularly walk the aisles of Whole Foods, which is as much a greenhouse incubator of the hottest new brands as it is a retailer. When he bought it in 2012 it had $93 million in revenue. They should explore up and coming datasets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

A bit of background: We launched #GivingTuesday in September 2012 and just 75 days later — four days after Thanksgiving — Americans in all 50 states came together to inaugurate a new "opening day" for the giving season. The community that got behind #GivingTuesday grew beyond our highest expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The new Booz & Company study " Empowering the Third Billion: Women and the World of Work in 2012 " examines the common global barriers women confront in entering the workforce. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators. This is not what the media makes it out to be.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. ” The result of that incubation period was an actual product. Before long, they were making progress. As Corrado told me, “For a network to learn, you need data and Google has lots of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. RIM has made a shoot-for-the-moon bet on a new operating system to be released near the end of 2012, but in the interim it might have brought out simple, rugged tablets tailored to corporate customers.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

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.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. Whether its an internally built effort or something you incubate through an acquisition (we've acquired over a dozen companies), keep it separate operationally.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

But the startup could not keep pace with the development and scale of established battery makers, and production defects led to a $55 million recall in 2012 and contributed to the company’s bankruptcy later that year. The company developed lithium ion batteries that helped convince automakers of their value for hybrid vehicles.

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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. Norway has been in a similar situation since oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea shelf in the 1960s.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. We invested in the company in 2012 through our fund, with the government contributing 85%, and U.S.-based The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

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