Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

They are too often governed by the interests of shareholders who regard corporations as speculative investment opportunities rather than human communities for which true owners would feel ties of responsibility and commitment. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

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.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

George Petsching, who led the incubation of the Courier tablet at Microsoft, told us that he attributes its demise to the research team’s product plans being “leaked” to the media.

Cialdini 13

Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market. KKR, BlackRock, Blackstone) became publicly traded holding companies exploiting capital markets to expand their reach.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. You probably reach for your firefighter’s hat to extinguish the short-term problem.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

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? With this realization, Cat began a life committed to honoring the talents and skills of those in prison.

Business Incubator 8

Business Incubator Incubator Charisma Morale 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. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. She told me how difficult it was.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Not" is not a typo. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But the Scalerator is very different from your typical startup accelerator: in our program, startups of any sector or age are accepted only if they have already demonstrated real market traction, high levels of ambition, and have a significant ownership stake.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

It’s hard to imagine a large company without a marketing department or division, yet less than 50 years ago marketing as a business function, profession, and department did not exist. The same is true of innovation today. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

That’s why we also ask our locations to tailor IDEO’s purpose to their particular markets or studios. We’ve learned that the best new ideas and capabilities are often incubated from the bottom up through someone’s personal energy and commitment. How do I have positive and disproportionate impact?

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Incubator Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 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. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8