Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

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. I met the band at this inflection point.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

But there’s a better comparison than Buffet: it’s John Malone, the “mastermind” who built the cable TV powerhouse Liberty Media. Liberty Media, Malone’s holding company, owns a portion of the stock in each business. “We do not intend to become one.”

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Be it skills training, R&D grants, or startup incubators, Europe has experience developing entrepreneurship ecosystems in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, including the very places immigrants are fleeing. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 10

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market. What do they really want?

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Postal Service, even with the constraints of its government mandate, has known for years that its traditional model was coming apart; Kodak realized that film was being replaced by digital media long before it changed its investment strategy; AOL knew that dial-up subscriptions were fading years before it took action.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 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. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. as young adult.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing. The result?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. Governments and private investors have built the incubators, hosted the hackathons, and tossed around plenty of seed funding. So far, nothing has worked. Bygrave and Jeffry A.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. But more than anything else, younger consumers like their technology. Where do they shop?

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 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. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. Facebook, for example, faced public fury over its manipulation of its own newsfeed to test how emotions spread on social media.

Analysis 8

Analysis Incubator Advertising Objective 8

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. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

billion market capitalization as of this writing. After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8