Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging. Shape the market early. Go to new places.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. In terms of management, the advent of the entrepreneurial society means above all replacing the rigidities of industrial-age mind-sets, with their command-and-control, top-down orientation. laura schneider FOR HBR.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Actual retailers, though, have tended to stick with simpler techniques, such as simply looking at how long it has been since a customer last bought anything, and picking a cutoff period (nine months, say) after which that customer is considered inactive. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

Simon 11

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

The most striking pattern we found in the data is the recent growth of "hybrid" organizations that integrate aspects of business to address long-standing social problems. In terms of funding, most capital is still looking to optimize either social value or financial returns, not both.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Union Pacific, the leading railroad company has a market capitalization of over $80 billion, about 60% more than Ford or GM. Disney, the leading movie studio company, has a market capitalization of about $150 billion. It doesn’t impress anybody with brilliant market forecasting or slick branding.

Company 8

Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. It’s understanding, for example, how automation and self-driving cars will slowly but radically transform job markets and proactively building new strategies to address those changes. We call it slow innovation. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Patience and a long-term view. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term. Directness.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Actual retailers, though, have tended to stick with simpler techniques, such as simply looking at how long it has been since a customer last bought anything, and picking a cutoff period (nine months, say) after which that customer is considered inactive. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging. Shape the market early. Go to new places.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. First, we analyzed the effects of short-term cross-cultural experiences in a longitudinal field experiment.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. This model is most common in software development teams, where UX designers may be involved in both early user research and long-term management of the product.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Watts also suggests zeroing in on the adjacencies that have the potential to shape your market. Define your intent firmly but flexibly.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. ” The Kickstarter experiment was then followed up with an analysis of the startups participating in the Technion incubator program in Israel.

Skills 105

Skills Team Incubator Brainstorming 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. At The Data Incubator, we help companies hire data scientists from our big data fellowship. How long does the process take from filing? How long does the process take from filing?

Process 8

Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. But here again, the market does not always work perfectly on its own.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. While that may be true in terms of financial luxury, this perception can also be misleading.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. 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. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. By the time that substantial U.S.

Innovation 10

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. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. Give employees (and their dogs) a long leash.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A point of market share creates five times that amount. The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. Unfortunately, few companies do that.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. And these investments do not even include those incurred in building, promoting, and marketing the new Kindle Fire product whose sales have yet to be counted at all. You have to be willing to think long-term.

Christensen 13

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop was born in drummer Rob Bourdon’s living room in 1999 when the band was packing CDs and stickers into boxes to send to their very first fans, long before any of their music had hit the radio waves. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

There is a purpose to their work, which requires long years of training and discipline, to which society rightly assigns a steep value. And their wealth is questionable; not just in moral terms, but also in economic ones. In what way do they benefit the societies that incubate them? They begin to fall.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Class Long-term Incubator 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

If we’re to prevent the enthusiasm for entrepreneurial ecosystems from also fizzling out, we need to get a better grip on what the term really means. In order to strengthen your regional entrepreneurship ecosystem, it is necessary to establish co-working spaces, incubators and the like. That is not the business they are in.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The concept of the resource curse emerged a few hundred years before the term was first coined by economist Richard Auty. The term describes the apparent difficulty many countries that have abundant natural resources have in terms of growing their economy. Institutional advantage.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. We believe that there’s a better way that can yield radical results — not just the short-term, quarter-to-quarter kind.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

To address this complexity there is a growing breed of experts who identify the root causes of problems and set about finding long-term and long lasting solutions. It’s clear that a focus on one problem in isolation will be ineffective. We call them “ systempreneurs.”

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Instead of weeks to organize an expensive, on-site, day long workshop on teamwork (arranging facilities, ensuring “butts in seats”), JOLT gave the team just what they needed, when they needed it, at a fraction of the cost, and delivered by a professional with high credibility.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8