Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I might only add and you know that young or immature leaders simply need tools, mentoring, and info to become great leaders. The truth is that all of us need mentoring, discipling and coaching to reach our full potential. I enjoy reading your thoughts here. Gaby pastortom2022 Totally agree! Great post Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. But university efforts to bring research to market are even more important.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

” But while he might help spot new talent, broker connections, and mentor younger artists, the Master did not define others’ work. Ferdinando Galiani, a Neapolitan economist of the 18th century, argued that markets are conversations. Fostering dialogue.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

WPP, the world’s largest marketing-services company, has bought more than 400 digital businesses over the past decade, and it gives them sufficient autonomy that they continue to grow; around 40% of the company’s revenues now come from digital offerings. One option is to buy your way in.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy. In the process, these senior execs developed their insights into the needs and wants of rural consumers through interaction, discussion and research.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But the Scalerator is very different from your typical startup accelerator: in our program, startups of any sector or age are accepted only if they have already demonstrated real market traction, high levels of ambition, and have a significant ownership stake. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

” You might also consider asking your insecure employee to be a “mentor or coach” to another team member. Assign your insecure employee to be a mentor or coach to another team member. She recommends saying something like, “Phil, you did great work on that presentation last week. Don’t. Jump to conclusions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators. They lack the experience or skills to mentor entrepreneurs and teach them what needs to be taught.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Seek out entrepreneurs who are trying to grow their companies from $1-$10 million rather than startup entrepreneurs (who are often first-timers) pitching ideas that aren’t yet on the market. in the proportional size of its mid-market business sector. In fact, Wisconsin is number two in the U.S.

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