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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

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How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Talent-as-a-Service – Use crowdsourcing platforms like Topcoder or Kaggle to access talent that may not be available in the enterprise, commonly for projects but conceivably for operations too. Incubators/accelerators/catapults – Create or sponsor an organization or space that supports startups.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' We grew faster than we thought we would.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

It can take the perceived pressure off, while underestimating the fact that it takes dedicated time and human resources to build a promising idea into a viable product, and those resources are often already accounted for on other projects. OneLeap and the entrepreneurs help the company select the top ideas for prototyping.