Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Nothing breeds copycats like a successful business venture. When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. But, copying others is a reality of doing business. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Unfortunately, current options for warming babies in developing nations are either expensive or unsafe. In 2011, Embrace piloted the product in India, where 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

This highly resource-constrained and chaotic environment inspires jugaad innovators — i.e., the Indian entrepreneurs and corporations who practice jugaad to develop market-relevant products and services that are inherently affordable and sustainable. Jugaad innovators innovate cheaper: Jugaad innovators are very frugal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

In my 1997 HBR article, Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World , I made the case for sustainability as a key driver of business growth. Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. companies still don't get it. Barring a transformation of U.S. Or it can stay its unsustainable course.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. One of these, startup accelerators, has received a great deal of attention but also little scrutiny. In fact, of the nearly 700 U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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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. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. The Silicon Valley Model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture. One of the greatest forms of employee recognition is an investment in someone’s personal growth and development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

For example, a few years ago we helped Medtronic formulate and deploy a business model to bring pacemakers to patients in India who historically either didn’t know they needed the device or couldn’t afford its $1,000 price tag (since most Indians pay for health care directly). That’s not to say big companies should go it alone.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2019

Many big firms will have incubators and accelerators to try and ensure the magic sauce rubs off on them. Steve Jobs famously eschewed focus groups in favor of telling customers what they should like, and it encapsulates the classic Henry Ford’ism that if you ask customers what they want you’ll simply develop a faster horse.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

They develop the few ideas that have the potential to solve problems for customers and be commercially viable (selection and design). They quickly develop prototypes and models that can be tested both in the laboratories and with customers (rapid experimentation). Innovation Organizational culture'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Team members assumed that meant going back to the drawing board to develop a business model that would be profitable in smaller cities. It''s perilously easy for corporate innovators to skate past the why and the how, particularly those working in new-growth groups or incubators. What do operating margins have to be?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. By reframing it as being analogous to launching a business, I talked myself down. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me. I don't want to talk about my book.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. Closer collaboration between schools, research institutes, and companies would enable the incubation of new ideas. To do this we must learn from the successes of other countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. This work needs not be expensive on its own. You’re there to be a catalyst.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

By bringing customer development closer to the marketplace and enabling rapid learning from failure, the lean start-up movement has great potential to increase the success rate of new ventures. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Open source software enables entrepreneurs to stand up businesses capabilities quickly and cheaply; Sourceforge , for example, is a platform allowing 2.7 million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. Note that FailCon's sponsors included a Silicon Valley Bank and a variety of business services firms.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator. At the end of the prototyping workshop, we hope to have a model or two to test in the field, as part of a pilot project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. They can invest in for-benefit enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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. They advocated a mix of in-company “learning by doing” training and formal training, and offered new mechanical qualifications.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Your employees are held back by a predigital worldview, and for the most part they lack the skills to develop cutting-edge digital offerings. For the Irish Times , it was an opportunity to get closer to the cutting edge of innovation in the advertising industry, and to act as a culture-change program for the established business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Memorial Sloan Kettering, The Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson ), medical device companies (Apple, Medronic, J&J, and Novo Nordisk), and retailer CVS to develop intelligent applications on top of the Watson platform. assets of the Weather Channel).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. We’ve all had to adapt. of course). and Harajuku Lovers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. If Ford applied those same ROI expectations to its new logistics business, it would likely kill it before it has a chance to thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Magical, really.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. What this means for companies looking to acquire is that they need to develop a detailed market analysis that demonstrates where value is already being created (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications? It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. Heins needs to pay attention up front to defining the challenges carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses. It's as if Amazon does not view itself as a retail company, but rather as an incubator for disruptive businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies obsessively ask that question, because their approach to new ideas is that there are good ones than can be developed into revenue generators, and bad ones that should be abandoned as quickly as possible so as not to waste resources.

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