Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. In the start-up world, there’s a big focus on business incubators such as YCombinator–perhaps too much focus. Most stagnate.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Managers know how to command obedience and diligence, but most are clueless when it comes to galvanizing the sort of volunteerism that animates life on the social web. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts. That’s the sort of waste we’re talking about.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8