N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Organizations short on leadership talent find themselves in such a position for a reason… current leadership failed to lead. It's an open question as to whether they'll be embraced and placed in positions of trust or smothered as a potential embarassment to the rest of the organizational heirarchy.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

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. ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Rather less appetizing was the finding that this was even so when ‘status’ relied on outdated stereotypes.

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Team Entrepreneur COO CFO 85

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Was it poor management, poor food, poor location, poor positioning, or some combination of all these things? Paul Graham, one of the founders of the startup incubator Y Combinator , wrote about Airnb , a business whose entrepreneurial goal was to create a platform to match beds with people in New York city.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Incubator Travel 14

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. This question explores the support model of the Innovation Unit.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

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.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Of course, small startups cannot compete with larger corporations when developing flagship systems like aircraft, but the market has truly opened up for innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. And ad-hoc solutions like positioning babies under bare light bulbs are simply risky. Unfortunately, current options for warming babies in developing nations are either expensive or unsafe.

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Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. If a junior member of a venture firm recommends your company to her superiors, it may actually be a negative signal inside the fund rather than a positive. But raising venture capital is sometimes a great idea.

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Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Rather, Groupon felt the need to include a metric of profitability, no matter how contrived, that was actually positive. Now, the venture capital markets cannot supply more capital and the company must depend on the IPO market to finance its money-losing operations.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. You can go to an incubator and potentially try to convince them to write a $15-$25K check to get your idea off the ground.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. It also will force the functional service providers to be more market-driven.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Ergo: heuristics win.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

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.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

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. The truth is that once you find yourself in a position where you need to adapt, it’s usually too late.

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Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Schumpeter himself posited that creative destruction, which he called “the essential fact about capitalism,” would lead to capitalism’s demise because of a backlash against the chaos it unleashes. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 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. For companies, ignoring the positive effect of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition may be harmful.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

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.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” Ergo: heuristics win.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. Our fund specifically looks to seed businesses that have the potential to disrupt existing markets or create new ones. Based on what we've seen, we evaluate whether the idea is negative, positive, or neutral in each of those characteristics.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In our research we have found that leadership has a 10 to 15% impact on financial performance and a 25 to 30% impact on market valuation. The lessons learned from these early adopters have wide relevance for all investors in capital markets who want to increase their returns by quantifying the market value of leadership.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Many of these businesses are led by women who would probably not have been considered for the top leadership position by their previous employers. What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common? Because most managers are simply unbearable.

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

“Is it market factors? ” Your mindset should be “simultaneously positive and optimistic but also cynical,” he says. . Do: Adopt a mindset that is positive but also skeptical. A few years ago Brad Neuenhaus was invited to join a company that was being incubated out of a large teaching hospital in Boston.

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How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.".

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 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. That feels like a lot for 100 days, and it is.

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

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. As such, USCIS will find certain roles in business, management, public relations, marketing, etc.,

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Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

George Petsching, who led the incubation of the Courier tablet at Microsoft, told us that he attributes its demise to the research team’s product plans being “leaked” to the media. The response to these first laser printers was overwhelmingly positive, spawning a multi-billion dollar business for Xerox.

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Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value. The Google unit calls its 41,000-square-foot state-of-the-digital-art playpen the Space.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 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. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. But IBM hasn't flourished because it kowtows to Wall Street.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Developing a positive dynamic within the team will benefit everyone — and especially your less secure reports. At the time, Anand was helping to build an incubator for Verizon and the employee — we’ll call him Peter — was a front-end Android developer who had been hired as a contract worker.

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Management How To McCombs Project 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

And relatedly, how do we recognize a black-market innovator who may have all the talent of a Richard Branson or a Jay-Z, but lacks the opportunities for a leg-up in the formal economy? But in getting to know the prison population better, Cat's position began to change. "I I suddenly realized I was meeting entrepreneurs in prison.

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Business Incubator Incubator Charisma Morale 8

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.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

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. First, there is someone else in the picture, most often a bank, which also has a stake in having a positive outcome.

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