Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Companies like Apple and Google are prized and admired for their unending commitment to introducing new services, products, methods and strategies. CEL is an incubator for people-powered projects that use digital media and technology to engage communities in social change. Why is this?

Innovation 15

Innovation Incubator Short-term Godin 15

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

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

In other words, as the deadline neared, my apprehension around the to-do list actually wasn't just outweighed by the pull of the commitments I'd made to my editor, publicist, and to myself, the anxiety per se helped increase the pull. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses.

Innovation 17

Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 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. Of course, part of this is simply the reality that TFA sets forth to recruit individuals with leadership potential--and is delivering on this aim.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

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. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). 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

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Today, technologies such as social media, smart phones, high-speed data mining, ubiquitously networked electronic devices, etc… have precipitated the collapse of the customer feedback float.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

And I like to share that because I really had no plan and no idea that I was building a platform, but I was one of maybe three or four folks in my niche which was high growth, women’s entrepreneurship focused in the technology arena. So I’m incubating this idea. Really, people who are building big businesses.

Open-book 74

Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. A fierce commitment to research. Like anything Google does, its Deep Learning initiative is rooted in its fierce commitment to science. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

Training 8

Training Learning Curve Incubator Long-term 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

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. Particularly at a large academic medical center like ours, providing ever-improving care and treating the sickest of the sick often seems unavoidably expensive. But it needn’t always be.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 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 was the predominant sentiment I heard a little more than five years ago when I told U.S.-based The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8