Incubation - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

path to scale that would not be possible otherwise. Elise Clarkson: As the Director of Social Entrepreneurship and host of Climate Rising, you work with entrepreneurs every day. The Harvard Innovation Labs (iLab) also recently announced the Harvard Climate... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

is why sleep so often incubates insight—that reference librarian in your brain has just put two volumes together. It is also why many people are having unusually vivid dreams right now. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

surveyed.) “Apparently HBS wasn’t the West Point of Capitalism,” Stevenson says, “we were actually the incubator of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship was a much more likely career than being a Fortune 500 CEO.” (Concurrently, important... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career teachers. Teach Plus began as a pilot in fall 2007, launched by Celine Coggins, a former teacher and labor-management consultant, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

researchers who were involved. LiveWorks arose out of an ambitious project to commercialize group collaborative technology concepts that had been incubating within PARC since the mid-1980s. This project was sponsored by the new Technology... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

underserved communities that was incubated within Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs. She has held roles at Google and in the Obama Administration. Jannine earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from HBS, a Fulbright Scholar, and... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

cofounded Aspect Ventures. Draper believes in the entrepreneur-as-hero concept so literally that visitors to Hero City, the incubator directly across the street from Draper University, will find a 50-foot-wide mural of Batman, Robin,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Their Funds, How Can Your Investors Be Helpful? About the Author Julia B. Austin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School [Image: tolgart] Related Reading: Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? How Entrepreneurs Can... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

digital incubator to provide resources for the exploration of new ideas. With that as background, let me provide a brief look at our near-term financial expectations. On the top line, we are forecasting total revenue growth of 9 percent... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

are building an organization that incubates new charter schools and provides a suite of services for independent charters across the city. They have been instrumental in connecting national organizations like Teach For America and New... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

poses the question: Should the open innovation unit fully incubate some ideas, instead of always seeking partnership with commitment from a customer-facing unit? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619013-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

Minguela must navigate. Minguela must also decide whether her long-term goal of an incubator-like platform for Spain is really feasible. The case describes how her vision differs from Rocket Internet-a large German incubator that also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

the next. Building startups will soon be his full-time job: This fall, Marietta will step down as executive director of Pine Mountain to launch the first business incubator and pitch contest in eastern Kentucky. Funded by a $500,000 grant... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

working with the private sector, and 2) to address Nigeria’s massive youth unemployment problem by engaging young people in agribusiness. To achieve his first goal, Sanginga in 2013 established a business incubation platform (BIP), which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

we’ll accept anything. But, globally, I’m trying to take into account the human aspect of running a business, not just the financial aspect. “Jeannette is the oldest startup in France, with the highest median worker age,” adds Viana, who even managed to talk his way... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

of America’s democratic systems was incubated among a group of HBS alumni; many more serve on its steering and advisory groups; and of the 140 members—executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and academic experts, people of all political... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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