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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

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The Example Larry and Sergey Should Follow (It’s Not Buffet)

Harvard Business Review

Coverage of Google’s restructuring has focused on the idea of Alphabet as a new kind of internet-era conglomerate. Or, if investors are enthusiastic about a new business that Liberty is incubating inside one of its existing companies, he can spin out that business as a “newco” with its own stock.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt. of course). Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'