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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. DAVID: Yeah.

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

However, if you need capital to validate, you are operating in a zone that will be full of very dark hours. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators.

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The Two Questions to Ask Before You Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Its members had a carefully constructed PowerPoint document, replete with facts and figures that showed the attractiveness of what we''ll call the booming management-training market in China (details have been disguised to protect the client''s confidentiality). What do operating margins have to be? What are ultimate revenue targets?

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Why the Greek Yogurt Craze Should be a Wake-Up Call to Big Food

Harvard Business Review

But for years, as Chobani gobbled up market share, the major food companies stuck to their regular lines of yogurt. Consumers are more tightly connected now and are more likely to follow word-of-mouth (or word-of-keystroke) advice than in the past. He wanted to use it to produce a line of strained, or “Greek,” yogurt called Chobani.

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Burris recommends heeding advice from Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck by trying to cultivate a growth mindset whereby colleagues are willing to challenge themselves and grow. Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. ” Give specific feedback.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Creating the Venture Client Model.