Remove 2012 Remove Incubator Remove Technology Remove Training
article thumbnail

Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

Gilbert 15
article thumbnail

Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. To make these tools even more effective, managers can complement them with entrepreneurship training prior to an international assignment. Immigrants represent 27.5%

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

Their reality was the noise and the myriad annoyances that go with crowds of people jostling to get to trains. This is the reality of artists, musicians, community organizers, many of them non-techies, working side by side with techies to hack not so much technologies but ways of working, living, creating, and organizing.

article thumbnail

Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

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.