Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

This is most common in accelerators and incubators, where a new organization is set up as a microcosm of the parent company and made up of people from every major function and discipline. Hive teams also have representatives from functions that might normally act as corporate antibodies, like legal, finance, HR, or compliance.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that people are helpless victims of powerful forces beyond their control. For example, take these recent dire predictions: Machines will steal all the jobs. Youth violence will grow.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

In a post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. This crisis doesn’t require people in positions of power and importance to solve it. How Bad Is The Crisis?

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models. It also reduces the burden on government by leveraging private capital to finance market-based solutions to social and environmental problems.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But during the last four years, a powerful change has been taking place. Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

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. The same can be asked of governments: you can stimulate a lot of entrepreneurship by clearly defining and allocating resources to social problems that need solving.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees. Shared work spaces and other entrepreneurship communities and incubators, such as “1776” in Washington, D.C.,

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Intuit has always had a reputation as a customer-focused company, which is fairly unique among software companies.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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. xefstock2/Getty Images. The Post-It note. Facebook’s “like” button. The Sony PlayStation.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a recent study , even when MIT-based hardware startups had access to the skills and financing needed for R&D and proof-of-concept work, they required additional capital, production capabilities, and lead customers that the U.S. Power to the people. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Any business needs to make money eventually, but the power of rapid scaling is a huge competitive advantage that those in the Valley understand keenly. Think like engineers and customers.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Whether its an internally built effort or something you incubate through an acquisition (we've acquired over a dozen companies), keep it separate operationally. Magical, really.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The index includes factors such as the educational infrastructure in each country, their ability to provide finance to entrepreneurs, the legal framework around business creation and development, and general ease of doing business common across both indices. No lack of talent.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. They dodge the same-old power dynamics and focus on building solutions that work.

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System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

The media, business schools, incubators — every part of the eco-system that is supposed to teach good business practices — reinforces this myth. The reality is that over 99% of entrepreneurs who go out to seek financing get rejected. Financing is optional. There are two primary reasons behind this phenomenon.

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Entrepreneur Incubator How To Venture Funding 10