Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. Ergo: heuristics win.

Simon 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. Ergo: heuristics win.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

It is questionable, for example, whether many thousands of pages of regulations have enhanced the banks’ ability to carry out their core mission of funding the real economy of goods and services for real human beings. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. The entrepreneurial society.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

Human Capital 12

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple.

Entrepreneur 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To the right, three shiny-suited investment bankers cluster around a banking reform activist in his twenties. Supporting activists to develop new campaign strategies that can build the capacity of NGO’s, as Campaign Lab does in the U.K. But funding is critically needed to get these projects off the ground and to sustain them.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

We love hearing historical stories about Robin Hood-like men, about bank robbers, pirates and outlaws on the run. So how, as a society, do we develop new instincts towards criminals and what strategies can be effectively employed to reduce the rate of incarceration and the rate of recidivism?

Business Incubator 8

Business Incubator Incubator Charisma Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Seek out entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their companies from $1-$10 million rather than startup entrepreneurs (who are often first-timers) pitching ideas that aren’t yet on the market. in the proportional size of its mid-market business sector. In fact, Wisconsin is number two in the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Traditionally, companies have found ways to navigate these challenges internally, in research and development (R&D) divisions like the famed Xerox PARC , founded in 1970, or through programs that encourage employees to dedicate a small percentage of their time to side projects, as 3M began doing in 1948. A Different Approach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

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