Matthew Griffin

MAY 5, 2015

In 2008 banks were considered to big to fail but seven years on it’s looking increasingly likely that they’re not too big to disrupt. Technology is having a democratising effect on Entrepreneurship – it’s lowered the bar to entry and it’s shifted the power away from the corporations and into the hands of the individual.

Disruption 40

Disruption Entrepreneurship Industry Technology 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, China dazzled the world with Beijing's posh athletic venues and revamped urban landscapes. The potential market for Chinese entrepreneurs is huge. An absence of disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship is suffocating China's future growth potential. But there are many reasons to be skeptical.

Entrepreneurship 16

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

After reading and digesting these two articles, I realised that my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story, that I have shared in my last two blogs, have landed in this exact same space. The third ten years 2008-2018. Including the importance of; Making fundamental change choices. The power of team cohesion & collaboration.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Leadership Culture Agile 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. I will call them hyper-entrepreneurship and excess diversification.

Entrepreneurship 20

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. No other metric more important to an organisation than its profitability.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Competition Course 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

There are many ways that live "corporate whales" can cultivate entrepreneurship ecosystems — as investors with capital for ventures to grow, as customers who buy innovative products, or as marketing partners to give the small dynamic firms global reach.

Entrepreneurship 8

Entrepreneurship Company Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2009, I took 42 Harvard Business School students to Israel for a week of entrepreneurship exploration.

Entrepreneurship 14

Entrepreneurship Tips Innovation Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

Design 16

Design Technical Review Entrepreneurship Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Blue), Australian (Green), and Canada (Red) — show each country's predicted patents per capita three years hence (so the most recent number for 2008 is a prediction for 2011). market; further, it is likely that the best innovations get snapped up by U.S. The lines — U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation Report Entrepreneurship Competition 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

Disruption 15

Disruption Entrepreneurship Marketing Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

First, let's make sure we're focused on the two biggest pressures on joblessness and job generation: the would-be new entrants — the 16- to 24-year-olds — lacking the necessary skills and experience to land gainful employment, and the post-55-year-old mature workers, intent on remaining in the labor market, or scrambling to get back in.

Competition 14

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IM Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So I run the , the university startup incubator there and I also teach in the entrepreneurship center. And we spoke about this before the podcast and you know , when we’re , when we’re catching up beforehand about product market fit and so on. I’m now helping a large nonprofit build a community health incubator.

How To 40

How To Case Study Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share. Excerpted from.

Social Innovation 14

Social Innovation Company Software Review Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Not focused on new marketing campaigns. It takes longer to raise money.

Entrepreneurship 13

Entrepreneurship Marketing Data Competition 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Furthermore, the amount of venture capital bears a zero correlation to the amount of startup activity, and is strongly negatively correlated with the presence of mid-market firms ($10 million to $1 billion), which according to a recent Dun and Bradstreet study have created over 90% of jobs since 2008.

Policies 14

Policies Entrepreneurship Report Study 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Small business lending peaked in 2008. Making the case for investments that produce social impact as well as market returns is not a discussion most executive directors want to have with their board — or their financial stewards on Wall Street. In fact, we estimate there are over 25,000 companies in U.S.

Leadership 15

Leadership Exercises Marketing Data 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Founder Bill Drayton led the way in fostering collaborative entrepreneurship for collective social change. In 2008, Pfizer was struggling with an unwieldy and costly model of obtaining outside legal help. Leaders of many nonprofits have shown themselves to be adept at this kind of community building.

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Collaboration Entrepreneurship Groups Software Development 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. Despite the recent slack in the job market, signs still point to a stubborn STEM skills gap.

Industry 12

Industry Training Competition Entrepreneurship 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

In 2008, I was on the business team at OnLive—a high-flying start-up in search of huge amounts of cash to turn a big idea into reality. The ask: invest $35 million for exclusive bundling rights to the US market. Cool new technology, new market for AT&T, competitive pressure, etc. Entrepreneurship Innovation Sales'

Technical Review 10

Technical Review Entrepreneurship Video Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008, two Harvard Business School colleagues and I held four forums with groups of about fifteen business leaders each in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. The recession had not yet begun, and after the crash in the fall of 2008, the popular view was that no one had seen it coming. In the U.S.,

System 12

System Meeting Groups Leadership 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Upstarts like The Honest Company, Warby Parker, and Airbnb are able to quickly win market share from leading businesses like Procter and Gamble, Luxotica, and Starwood Hotels by decomposing markets into highly customized niches so that the incumbents can’t compete on scale alone.

Artificial Inteligence 14

Artificial Inteligence Product Development LEAN Design 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

healthcare system have taken at least one well-worn market-based path: strive for economies of scale. Moore left his practice in 2008 to help build a movement around what is called the Ideal Medical Practices or IMP. Entrepreneurship Health Managing yourself' The attempts to “fix” the U.S. Businesses try this every day.

Entrepreneurship 11

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. 2008 was tough, but we had a better year in 2009 and better still in 2010. Worth, TX housing market. Everyone in the industry felt the impact. As a result, we've just seen our 92nd consecutive quarter of profit.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Culture LEAN Design 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

For example, Drew Houston''s March 2008 Digg video for Dropbox generated 70K signups for a product that hadn''t been released yet — and went a long way in confirming product-market fit. But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk. Test market risk first.

Video 9

Video Entrepreneurship Product Development Disruption 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H. by Thomas H.

Entrepreneurship 8

Entrepreneurship Leadership Strategy Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Entrepreneurship 8

Entrepreneurship Brainstorming Data Groups 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

For example, Drew Houston’s March 2008 Digg video for Dropbox generated 70K signups for a product that hadn’t been released yet — and went a long way in confirming product-market fit. But most businesses fail because our assumptions about customer demand are wrong — because of market risk.

Video 8

Video Entrepreneurship Product Development Disruption 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

I had spent my career building emerging brands in the natural and organic consumer space, first leading sales and marketing for Kashi cereal, then founding SPINS, a market research firm for the natural products industry. Competition Entrepreneurship Strategy CSD'

Entrepreneurship 9

Entrepreneurship Competition Industry Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. Then, in the early 2000s, the declining tenure trend for men bottomed out; since 2006 it''s been on a steady upward path.

Trends 9

Trends Data Comparison Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” The founder has to build a company capable of marketing and selling large volumes of the product and of providing customers with after-sales service.

Leadership 9

Leadership Entrepreneurship Case Study Study 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

His measure of IT better explains the rise in industry concentration than do measures of M&A or entrepreneurship. “Once a firm ‘invents’ good management it will then grow rapidly and dominate the market,” Bloom argues. Bessen compared measures of industry concentration from the U.S.

Technical Review 9

Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneurship Competition 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And after withering down to 40 employees during the 2008 housing crisis, the company now has 175 employees. Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources.

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Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Meeting Groups 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. For a refresher on how PE works, see The Strategic Secret of Private Equity.)

Innovation 14

Innovation Report Industry Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

Competition 8

Competition Artificial Inteligence Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Yet in various contexts, such as entrepreneurship and hiring , people often exhibit a preference for men over women when information about an individual’s quality (for example, their expected performance) is unavailable or unclear. .” exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013).

Analysis 8

Analysis Study Entrepreneurship Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

We analyze how the skills of employees relate to young firms’ likelihood of introducing new-to-the-market products or services and how that relationship varies depending on the skills of the founders. Established in 2008, the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel is a representative survey of German startups.

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