Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

This means internal R&D activities must increasingly shift towards becoming crowdsourced , taking advantage of the wider ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and entrepreneurs. More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. and compete successfully.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 especially those with R&D operations. The management of R&D projects will become more difficult and less efficient as the movement of personnel between firms’ U.S. It turns out that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? We live in a time when many of the great entrepreneurs are associated with dramatic dreams. So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like? So what about China?

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. Martin Ruef , a sociologist at Princeton who's studied entrepreneurs, found that those who broadened their universe of contacts from small groups of familiar acquaintances to larger, more loosely-connected networks of people were far more innovative. And for good reason.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. A few organizations in the PR industry have overtly sold their ability to “create and fix Wikipedia pages” in ways that violate the very spirit and purpose of the Wikipedia project.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

To explore this idea of elite degree fatigue — and to figure out what might be driving it — I spoke with entrepreneurs, executives, and hiring managers at a range of tech companies. “Commandos” do their own thing and are effective as individual operators.

Software 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. Even busy overseas professionals with families may be able to spare a few hours a week to mentor young entrepreneurs or act as consultants to domestic companies via web or mobile platforms. Measure impact and reward engagement.

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