Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

When they don’t have the time or space to incubate novel and clever ideas, they may miss out on opportunities to reframe a problem and see new possibilities for potential solutions. How do you help your team develop their creativity? What else can companies do to develop mindful teams and cultures? Thinking Creatively.

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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 8

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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Companies are seeking to be quicker on their feet and more innovative. Our own consulting industry is the poster child for this phenomenon.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy.

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator. The Performance Challenge.

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Real Estate Business Incubator Workshop Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

VJ, an engineer in India working on a development project, is trying to resolve technical issues within a software application. Since the global consulting firm where he works employs thousands of other developers he can only assume there must be others who have faced this challenge, but doesn't know where to start in reaching them.

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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

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.

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Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Finally, assess the level of time you're willing to put into developing this person.

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Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

” Other attempts to adapt to Apple’s innovations, such as the Zune mp3 player, didn’t gain traction either. To understand how, take a look at the innovation ecosystem that it’s built. It invests heavily into research and allows promising projects to incubate at its Google X division.

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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. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. They are also reinventing Marriott’s product development process.

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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. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Record so far: IBM has developed Watson’s base IP largely in its own R&D labs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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