Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Patience and a long-term view.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

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.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

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. These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. 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

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. In the 20 months that followed, our mission was to focus on questions related to the company’s long-term reputation, focus, and business model — no matter how it was measuring success that quarter. We call it slow innovation. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Believing that the best route to long-term empowerment for women was through education, Sakena Yacoobi created an underground network of schools that operated out of private homes. Take the Orenda Project for example, a rising edtech start-up from Pakistan that was incubated as part of the WISE Learner’s Voice Program.

Innovation 8

Innovation Entrepreneur Content Education 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. Long before customers are clamoring for specific solutions, marketing is setting the stage. Incubate new businesses and models.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Is innovation intended to improve and expand the existing business, or is it meant to redefine the company itself and the industry in which it operates? Develop a first-cut portfolio of short and longer-term efforts, with a few planned quick losses. Define your intent firmly but flexibly. Some may already be in progress.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 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

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

There is also a risk that these ventures may cause some to associate women's businesses solely with microfinance, leading lenders, incubators, and even the entrepreneurs themselves to limit their thinking to small ventures, when the ideas and market potential of some women may warrant something bigger.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 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. Long before customers are clamoring for specific solutions, marketing is setting the stage. Incubate new businesses and models.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

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. “We’ve moved from ad hoc day-to-day product planning to the deployment of a long-term disciplined approach supported by purposeful metrics.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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. While that may be true in terms of financial luxury, this perception can also be misleading. Beyond the organizational returns, Masala is thinking long term. “We

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

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. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. Mind the Mittelstand.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

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. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

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. So we are left with a quandary. So, how does this get resolved?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

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

We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. We believe that there’s a better way that can yield radical results — not just the short-term, quarter-to-quarter kind. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. Digital Talent Will Be in Shorter Supply.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9