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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. .” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

The BWPO has a central team, led by its chief medical officer, responsible for “medical management” — a term used to describe efforts to improve clinical care and succeed in contractual obligations related to performance measurement. Over years, the medical management team built strong ties to PCPs. Insight Center.

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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

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. GE and GE Ventures, for example, actively seek and develop channels rather than simply looking for budding new companies to invest in.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting?

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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Noisebridge photo by Dylan Hendricks, 2013. Every day brings a fresh horde of visitors — business executives, overseas dignitaries, researchers, and journalists — trying to discover what makes Silicon Valley tick.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Want to Do Corporate Innovation Right? Go Inside Google Brain

Harvard Business Review

That passion has continued and Google invests billions of dollars every year on research and development. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. ” The result of that incubation period was an actual product. A tight feedback loop.