Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

A hybrid approach is exemplified by startup Frogtek, which develops software for local shopkeepers in emerging markets to more efficiently track their inventory, leading to better purchasing decisions and greater profits. Hybrids thus risk mission drift, as they may over time start targeting wealthier and more profitable market segments.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Start-up factories, incubation hubs, living laboratories, and hotspots for innovation are springing up in cities around the world. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

and Canada with extensive experience in emerging markets persevered to take a closer look. We almost immediately learned that Iran is an astoundingly lovely place, with very little of the deep poverty one sees intertwined into the societies of most emerging markets. Coke and Pepsi were everywhere.

Travel 10

Travel Incubator Bottom-up Education 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2011

The Marketing Challenge. Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Business Incubator Workshop Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Even in this era of political gridlock there is agreement in Congress that entrepreneurs need support. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

. “With good reasons, you default to the people you consider to be excellent colleagues, the people you can rely on and enjoy,” says Karen Dillon, author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics. Mario Chamorro, a growth marketer in San Francisco, knows how important it is to treat employees fairly.

Management 11

Management Video Team Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

This has been an explosive summer — markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. Paul Gudgin, the Fringe's artistic director from 1999 to 2007 (and who now advises festivals around the world), calls the event "the world's greatest artistic incubator." Who markets each event? Who gets to perform?

Creativity 9

Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Choice means that someone loses, and that creates political risk.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Ensuring that refugees have valid credentials to enter the labor market is a consistent challenge, especially when many qualifications from their homeland struggle for acceptance in their adopted land. It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon.

Education 111

Education Business Incubator Incubator Course 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

By listening to and observing these actors in groups, you can usually see if the different domains of the ecosystem are disconnected or aligned, polite or candid, collaborative or conflicting. in the proportional size of its mid-market business sector. Do they encourage different viewpoints, experimentation, and risk-taking?

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee. Both rational experimentation and design thinking provide cover for this political calculus.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017. So how did they do this?

Resources 88

Resources Innovation GDP Education 88

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. The conversations all went pretty much the same. “Why Singapore?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

” Systempreneurs focus on addressing some of the largest, most complex challenges of our time — from healthcare to food to politics — by taking on our most entrenched and broken systems. We call them “ systempreneurs.” Consider this example: the Future of Fish.

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. ” 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.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

The 1980 coup, for example, ushered in years of human rights abuse and incubated a violent insurgency in the country’s southeast region, a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. That could be interpreted as a sign of shifting economic priorities away from the masses and to the benefit of political and economic elites.

Politics 8

Politics Incubator Bureaucracy Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8