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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Department of Defense and Intelligence community have also adopted this model as the Hacking for Defense process.).

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

” 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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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground. However, the best incubators also look for large, venture fundable business opportunities. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity.

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What Startup Accelerators Really Do

Harvard Business Review

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. Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose? We need to continue to build a pipeline of these systems changers.

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