Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Innovation, in word and deed, has been a golden calf of the business world for decades. Companies like Apple and Google are prized and admired for their unending commitment to introducing new services, products, methods and strategies. In other words, I've seen how hard innovation can be in every possible social sector setting.

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Innovation Incubator Short-term Godin 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

But the way they function reminds me of a very old idea: the Renaissance “bottega” (workshop) of 15th-century Florence, in which master artists were committed to teaching new artists, talents were nurtured, new techniques were at work, and new artistic forms came to light with artists competing among themselves but also working together.

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Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Remember, however, that just like Rome, a reputation isn’t built in a day—commitment and consistency are key. Google Known for its innovative and relaxed work environment, Google encourages creativity, and collaboration, and provides various perks for employees, such as flexible schedules and on-site facilities.

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Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

Identify time commitments – ideally your co-founders would be full-time, but it might not be possible, so try and identify early on whether you need them full-time or not. For instance, if you’re a technical wizard, it might be wise to consider bringing with you people with business or operational skills.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 86

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

At the other end of the size spectrum, Walmart has committed to investing $2.7 We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. Giving managers more time to do deep thinking can unlock innovations that can have a significant impact on productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

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Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development. Long-term thinking with short-term flexibility.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 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. Its rise to prominence began when it launched its affordable Brownie camera in 1900. Start before you need to.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

IPG wanted to reinforce its commitment to inclusion. And for society and democracy at large, the workplace might just be the one institution that incubates a more constructive way of bringing people together. After the heated rhetoric of last November’s U.S. People called in anonymously from five continents.

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Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

And relatedly, how do we recognize a black-market innovator who may have all the talent of a Richard Branson or a Jay-Z, but lacks the opportunities for a leg-up in the formal economy? Many gangsters are natural born innovators with restricted economic opportunities. As Gary joked, "You can't even see bad under the microscope.

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Business Incubator Incubator Charisma Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. It featured a small team of energetic leaders with audacious dreams about substantially growing their business unit. The challenges facing companies in India didn't faze this group. India's infrastructure issues need to get fixed.

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Incubator Banking Hotels Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

But for phase three (buy and transform), financial discipline is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence is not a tool, but a mindset. This expertise enables phase one (buy and sell) and phase two (buy and hold) to occur.

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." He was comfortable making smart bets to position IBM for decades-long growth, such as creating the Emerging Business Organization to incubate new businesses and shield them from P&L pressures.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' Not" is not a typo. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. So to better understand how Google innovates, I took a close look at what it’s doing in one area: Deep Learning, a devilishly complex form of artificial intelligence that helps machines to absorb and act on information much as humans do. An internal incubator.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What did follow, almost every time, was creeping or even ballooning scope, increasingly large investments to support a lengthy development process with little iterative feedback, and a big resource commitment to create an amazing product or service that the in the end market may not actually want. Incubators, accelerators, business networks.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

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Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

And we convened two dozen investors and investment professionals from around the country in a unique, closed-door Financial Innovations Workshop to see the growth first hand and then to invent financial instruments that would help them profit from financing the growth. 4 – Building local capacity and getting out.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

If you’re not really committed to making some big change happen, you’re not going to stick with it long enough to actually build that platform and have a real impact in the world. And then of course, aligning to trends, aligning to the big future that you’re trying to bring about, that you’re committed to.

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Bottom-up innovation. We’ve learned that the best new ideas and capabilities are often incubated from the bottom up through someone’s personal energy and commitment. The employees we hire rarely struggle with the skills of their jobs, but sometimes they do need support in adhering to these values.

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Bottom-up Incubator Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8