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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

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What It’s Like Being a Business Traveler in Iran

Harvard Business Review

But after spending the past two years traveling across the Arab world (and writing a book about innovation and entrepreneurship in the region), I also knew how younger generations and new technologies can redefine business and engagement across the board. At the same time, there is a rising independent start-up community as well.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Although she was based in Manhattan, she traveled constantly and was a frequent keynote speaker. Businesses run by UEs generated $6 billion in annual revenue and employed 225,000 people. Helena had been profiled in Forbes , the Wall Street Journal , and The Economist as a champion of entrepreneurship. She spent most holidays back in Miami.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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When Ingenuity Saves Lives

Harvard Business Review

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. After producing an initial prototype — a stripped-down version of traditional incubators powered by electricity — they traveled to Nepal to test it in an urban hospital.

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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers

Harvard Business Review

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. The company offered financial literacy classes, with topics such as “How to Buy a Home,” and integrated them with classes on travel and wine. That’s an enormous mistake.

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Bologna Shows How a Business Cluster Can Stay Vibrant for Centuries

Harvard Business Review

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The fruit of their travel was first the gestation and then, around 1844, the foundation of a technical school named after them.