Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.” In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Everything else is up in the air.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

based solar energy companies produce systems that compete on price, opening up huge new mass markets for renewable energy? These examples make clear that the U.S. Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. Barring a transformation of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

For example, Walmart now offers optometry services, beauty salons, and restaurants. For example, Tesla plans to let its customers to rent out their vehicles to pay off car loans and earn extra cash. This is already beginning to happen. But why stop there?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Here’s an example of what can happen when we do: GE now sells ultrasound machines that are portable and durable enough to simply be trekked in to wherever they are needed. Recently, for example, I’ve been posing this question to our markets: What happens when billions of machines come online and start communicating?

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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. Let’s look at GE as an example. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. Along the way, partner with others, try small tests, and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Everything else is up in the air.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, there can be any number of things that happen in an employee’s personal life that adversely impacts their work-related confidence, commitment or motivation. Effective leaders can play a significant role in empathetically redirecting the performance-related energy of people during those struggles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

To help develop a cleantech industry, the government should spend its money on fully incubated business models that have proven the ability to create a profit and that have demonstrated sustainable competitive advantage. Denmark, for example, has catalyzed the creation of its electric vehicle infrastructure through progressive tax policy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Their stories are prominent examples of a widespread pattern. Finding that it helped ease his jet lag, he decided to license the product and sell it in Austria under the name Red Bull Energy Drink. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Here’s an example of what can happen when we do: GE now sells ultrasound machines that are portable and durable enough to simply be trekked in to wherever they are needed. Recently, for example, I’ve been posing this question to our markets: What happens when billions of machines come online and start communicating?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Social entrepreneurs can serve as the "R&D function" for learning how to serve underdeveloped markets, according to Jim Koch, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University , which has supported more than 160 social enterprises over the last decade. Consider these examples: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. What if I'd said, for example: "Here's what I know today, here's what I know you know how to do, and here's what I'd like to learn from you so that in 3-5 years I can be in senior management." (For

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. That’s a group assessment,” Berns says. ” The writer E.B.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

.” He suggests asking a colleague from another department or division to sit in on one of your team meetings and “give you feedback on where you’re focusing your energy and attention.” ” Besides, Dillon adds, you shouldn’t “waste your energy” on disliking a colleague.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. A good example is Google’s acquisition of Nest. the AS400 minicomputer and the PC).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. Start small.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Congratulations!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For example, in France it is twice as likely to find a 49-person company as a 50-person company. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Unjam the exit if you really want to improve entrance and scale-up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000. In the last six years the federal government funded 56 cluster initiatives in areas from green energy to defense contracting. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. GE is one example of a big, industrial company showing how you can quickly build software capabilities using an internal start-up model. ” Integrating with the Mother Ship. Machines are getting smarter and smarter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Take the example of lithium-ion batteries. For example, France used a combination of national public policy and procurement to build a world-class nuclear power industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

For example, in our New York office, where I’m based, we all came together to design our “phone booths,” or rooms for private calls, each themed after a famous New Yorker (Woody Allen, Robert De Niro). For example, one of our fastest-growing businesses focuses on education.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. Consider this example: the Future of Fish. Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

The International Space Station program is a good example of the power of finding the common ground. As my two Russian crewmates and I waited to depart from the same launchpad Gagarin had used in 1961, I looked up and saw an American flag painted on the rocket — a compelling example of the transformative power of finding common ground.

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