Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations. Frogtek and many other hybrids sell goods and services, and rely on revenues to sustain and scale their operations. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

There is also a risk that these ventures may cause some to associate women's businesses solely with microfinance, leading lenders, incubators, and even the entrepreneurs themselves to limit their thinking to small ventures, when the ideas and market potential of some women may warrant something bigger.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models. For-benefit enterprises currently operate at a substantial disadvantage relative to for-profits because our legal and market systems are not designed to recognize or support them.

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to my current research at Harvard on innovation models in global companies across diverse sectors, these types of projects fail between 70% and 90% of the time.This should be a deeply troubling, motivating statistic. Tailored short-term teams with radically diverse yet relevant skills help identify opportunity areas quickly.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house. As co-lead vocalist and founder Mike Shinoda puts it, “Our goal was to build an internal team of diverse talent to support the non-traditional endeavors the band plans to pursue in the coming years.”

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Dig deeper and you'll find that the diversity of views usually corresponds with how executives frame the problem. It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. Heins needs to pay attention up front to defining the challenges carefully.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consider how Barcelona, for example, systematically seeks innovative solutions from entrepreneurs: winning proposals receive guaranteed contracts, plus additional support like office space for their operations. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 8

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 benefits from free movement from across the EU, and while not without hurdles for non-EU citizens, is a diverse and welcoming country.

Resources 89

Resources Innovation GDP Education 89

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc. A portfolio approach can take many forms.

Innovation 10

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 10