The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing. They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation.

Engineering 140

Engineering Innovation Incubator Open-book 140

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Organizations short on leadership talent find themselves in such a position for a reason… current leadership failed to lead. It's an open question as to whether they'll be embraced and placed in positions of trust or smothered as a potential embarassment to the rest of the organizational heirarchy.

Leadership 419

Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Seed investors are mostly operating as growth investors, expecting that the entrepreneur will somehow manage to bridge the gap and bring a concept to realization. Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. This remains a controversial point of view.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. Results have included improvements in customer satisfaction and an overall positive “Rich experience.” Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. First, there is someone else in the picture, most often a bank, which also has a stake in having a positive outcome. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8