Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

But what I liked about Helen’s comment was her realization that she needed a considerable amount of time-out to reflect, to be really creative. You can’t do creative work at a cyber pace. Creative work has its traditional rhythms. To be creative, you need to possess a more serene state of mind. It’s an important point.

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Incubator Creativity Learning-by-Doing Information 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Thanks to our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices, there is no longer a technology reason why we can’t be working every minute of every day. Neuroscience and psychology research show that mind-wandering facilitates creativity, planning, and putting off immediate desires in favor of future rewards.

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Productivity Products Incubator Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development. Accessibility is another key.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. At the same time, our explanatory powers can push our own company to do its best thinking about the possibilities for connecting industrial technology, analytics, and user experiences.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Isn’t it better to hasten Joseph Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction and move capital and employment from inefficient dinosaurs to more vibrant and agile upstarts? Creative destruction carries transaction costs. I give them three reasons. First, timing matters. People lose their jobs.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. European taxpayers have funded much of the brainpower that stimulated technological innovation and economic growth in the U.S.

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Florentine workshops were communities of creativity and innovation where dreams, passions, and projects could intertwine. This helped create a holistic approach to creativity, which stands in opposition to our own organizations, in which people in different specialties are often separated into silos.

Innovation 8

Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. Toyota was prepared to help its best suppliers scale.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Since then, I've founded a new project and brand within the country's largest progressive think tank and am now working with ambitious social entrepreneurs to develop, experiment with, and incubate new ideas. Will genocide be any more intense if you try a creative online action for your organizations? Why is this? Probably not.

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Innovation Incubator Short-term Godin 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. At the same time, our explanatory powers can push our own company to do its best thinking about the possibilities for connecting industrial technology, analytics, and user experiences.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. So companies are increasingly seeking ways to tap into the creative milieu of the start-up world. It’s becoming increasingly clear that in the second phase of digital transformation, you can’t go it alone.

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Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Cross-cultural experiences may also stimulate creativity. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. And yet some cities seem to attract talent much more easily than others. Urban innovation districts have become popular in many cities around the U.S.

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Decentralization Incubator Innovation Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of 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

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. The vision thing. “How big could this be?

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g., Can the elephant dance again?

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. Just as a business model is required to maximize the reach of a simplifying technology, so too is a business model required to maximize the reach of a book. By reframing it as being analogous to launching a business, I talked myself down.

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Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 18

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Today, technologies such as social media, smart phones, high-speed data mining, ubiquitously networked electronic devices, etc… have precipitated the collapse of the customer feedback float.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

At The Data Incubator, we help companies hire data scientists from our big data fellowship. It bears mentioning that the arts is defined broadly to encompass all creative endeavors, to include several occupations in the business realm such as graphic design, advertising, and marketing.

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Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The emergence of big data, as well as advancements in data science approaches and technology, is providing pharmaceutical companies with an opportunity to gain novel insights that can enhance and accelerate drug development. It is messy data, filled with inconsistencies, potential biases, and noise.

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Pharmaceuticals Incubator Health Care Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Use creative content to communicate our brand’s point-of-view.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. My point to the management team and the board is that the big risk we face is technology obsolescence. “The

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Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

federal research investments enabled the invention of the magnetic storage drive, lithium-ion batteries, and liquid crystal display technologies that paved the way for the next generation of consumer electronics in the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In order to strengthen your regional entrepreneurship ecosystem, it is necessary to establish co-working spaces, incubators and the like. Some entrepreneurs find that co-working spaces diminish their creativity or distract them from their focus. Others feel that the network gives them access to information and ideas.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Even as we move into an era of large-scale incubation of new ventures by enterprises, in which large, established companies increasingly play the entrepreneurial game, we see this overwhelming instinct to boil everything down to good idea versus bad idea, conclusively and irrefutably. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off.

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 12

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. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. “Why Singapore?

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries.

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9