Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

But after spending the past two years traveling across the Arab world (and writing a book about innovation and entrepreneurship in the region), I also knew how younger generations and new technologies can redefine business and engagement across the board. At the same time, there is a rising independent start-up community as well.

Travel 10

Travel Incubator Bottom-up Education 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Although she was based in Manhattan, she traveled constantly and was a frequent keynote speaker. Businesses run by UEs generated $6 billion in annual revenue and employed 225,000 people. Helena had been profiled in Forbes , the Wall Street Journal , and The Economist as a champion of entrepreneurship. She spent most holidays back in Miami.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. After producing an initial prototype — a stripped-down version of traditional incubators powered by electricity — they traveled to Nepal to test it in an urban hospital.

Incubator 11

Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Paul Graham, one of the founders of the startup incubator Y Combinator , wrote about Airnb , a business whose entrepreneurial goal was to create a platform to match beds with people in New York city. The idea was that many homes had space and a mattress, while many travelers were looking for cheap lodging.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Incubator Travel 14

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. And after accumulating significant experience with this portfolio approach, GE is focusing today on fewer things that they’re incubating in a bigger way.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Involve employees in decision-making processes Create task forces or committees to address specific challenges or opportunities Host regular forums where employees can openly discuss concerns, share ideas, and engage in dialogue with leadership Ensure that these forums are inclusive and provide a safe space for expression Create spaces for idea incubation, (..)

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company offered financial literacy classes, with topics such as “How to Buy a Home,” and integrated them with classes on travel and wine. By 2020, half of all travelers will be Millennials. Previous generations of travelers liked the idea of knowing that, wherever they went, their hotel would be the same.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

While traveling between India and the U.S. As some of you will remember, I headed a start-up called HCL Comnet in 1993, which incubated the idea of remote infrastructure management services. these past few months, I spent some of the long hours in the air looking back at my professional life and the lessons I learned along the way.

Succession 8

Succession Incubator Price Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Redirecting our attention to an unrelated task also provides room for incubation , a term psychologists use to describe nonconscious thinking. Glance at your list just before entering mind-wandering periods, like when you’re going out for a sandwich or traveling between meetings. A new context can lead to a fresh perspective.

Incubator 8

Incubator Creativity Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation. No wonder we resonate to Robert Frost: “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Noura Al Kaabi. They may well be wrong, in which case they look the fool.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Travel in Mumbai is erratic on clear days, but the rain meant a typical 40 minute journey took close to three hours (traffic's unpredictability is the main reason I don't schedule more than one meeting a day in Mumbai). A recent trip summed up the promise and peril of modern India. I landed in Mumbai at around 10:30 Monday morning.

Incubator 8

Incubator Banking Hotels Workshop 8

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. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. In part, he wrote: In other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Customers can tweet at JetBlue with questions or problems, and the account helps keep JetBlue front of mind for its followers, even when they’re not traveling. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Airline JetBlue has turned its Twitter account into a highly responsive, 24/7 customer service line.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

When Dietrich Mateschitz traveled to Thailand in the 1980s, he observed the popularity of a cheap energizing drink called Krating Daeng among truck drivers and construction workers. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The fruit of their travel was first the gestation and then, around 1844, the foundation of a technical school named after them. The Aldini-Valeriani School thus acted as the incubator of a number of new firms, with a good number of students who subsequently choosing to start their own packaging companies.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The biggest challenge of all may be inspiring colleagues throughout the company to find the time, amidst their travel and deadlines and calendar appointments, to consider themselves a co-conspirator in slow innovation work. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Here’s how not to ask for vacation time: A woman who worked in a research office had waived enough vacation time to accrue four weeks’ worth in order to travel abroad for a long-planned family wedding. In her mind, this was fair; she had earned the vacation, which was strictly true.

Incubator 8

Incubator Conflict of Interest Planning Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Masala has been at Kuoni, a leading travel services company, since 2007, and is known for frequently shaking things up. In essence, OneLeap runs something like an accelerated competition and incubator inside the company. A Different Approach. OneLeap and the entrepreneurs help the company select the top ideas for prototyping.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. .”

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

Ron spent 178 days in space on board the International Space Station (ISS), travelling 71 million miles in orbit. Ron is the founder of the nonprofit social enterprise incubator Manna Energy Foundation and Fragile Oasis , an effort to use the orbital perspective to inspire positive social and environmental action.

Power 100

Power Incubator Learning-by-Doing Goal 100