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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. 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.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees. As these business models scale and go mainstream, they will help create an economy that generates a bigger pie for everyone.

Company 10

Company Creativity Retail Business Model 10

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. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

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.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

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.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

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.

Incubator 12

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 12

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.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. The founders came up with the idea for Embrace's frugal business model while they were all attending Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability program.

Incubator 11

Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 11

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.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). The integrated business model will be difficult for competitors to copy, but Medtronic knows it has to keep pushing.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

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.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

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. Just as a business model is required to maximize the reach of a simplifying technology, so too is a business model required to maximize the reach of a book.

Innovation 17

Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. “Businesses have clustered into networks of various sorts throughout history,” writes the U.S.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. While most companies reward those who make a direct contribution to technology or product innovation, the best approach involves recognizing anyone who makes a significant contribution, regardless of the type of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

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.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. Note that FailCon's sponsors included a Silicon Valley Bank and a variety of business services firms.).

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

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. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g., Can the elephant dance again?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 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. Conceiving smart options Turbulent environments are characterized by uncertainty.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

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%

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 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. Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 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. Johnny Ryan, the executive who created FUSION, saw it as a “validator” rather than an incubator: It forced the start-ups to face the hazards of the market, but with support from peers and mentors.

Advertising 8

Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Here are five steps an “intrapreneur” can take to create a Mission Analysis that satisfies the concerns and needs of both the corporate parent as well as the entrepreneurial business: Begin with the “What,” a clear and actionable mission for your business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Even as we move into an era of large-scale incubation of new ventures by enterprises, in which large, established companies increasingly play the entrepreneurial game, we see this overwhelming instinct to boil everything down to good idea versus bad idea, conclusively and irrefutably. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off.

Consensus 12

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.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13