Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. doesn't lack for technology; what it lacks is the imagination and capability to design the strategies and business models of tomorrow. Barring a transformation of U.S.

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. According to the Journal of Management , NASA scientists and engineers found that performance increases as deadlines shorten, but when the deadlines became too short, performance declined. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me.

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Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones.

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Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. Let's start with the human side.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. As mentioned above, IBM acquired Explorys and Phytel and combined their IP into a new offering, Watson Care Manager.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. In the U.S., Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. What seems certain is that if you’re managing an incumbent company, you cannot predict, much less invent, the future on your own.

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Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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. We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

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. Develop a portfolio of new business models. Any new venture or business model is risky.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. Every business and business model has a finite life. Products come and go.

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Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

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. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers?

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

” I heard top management ask that question many times during the two years I spent working on new products at The New York Times. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off. “Can we do one more study?” It’s a question that’s raised often at many big companies when a new idea is being discussed.

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

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