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Article How Colgate-Palmolive Got the Industry to Shift to Recyclable Toothpaste Tubes
December 29, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
We talk with Colgate-Palmolive's Ann Tracy about the making the recyclable tube happen; the company's three "ambition pillars"; and how the company tracks progress toward its sustinability goals.
Article Entergy VP: You Can Drive ESG Progress and Financial Growth
December 7, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
John Weiss, VP of sustainability and environmental policy at Entergy, the Fortune 500 company is chasing an ambitious sustainability goal. They're targeting net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Article Member Spotlight: Emily Stuis, Pfizer
June 21, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our Member Spotlight series, we talked with Emily Stuis, Go-to-market Innovation Agenda and Sourcing Lead at Pfizer, about her team and its remit; her advice for communicating with senior leadership; her career; and more.
Article Try Out InnoLeadGPT, Our AI Chatbot
June 8, 2023
We've created a chatbot interface to a portion of InnoLead’s content. You can ask it anything related to corporate innovation — and like ChatGPT, you can follow up with instructions on how you'd like it to expand upon or refine its answers.
Article Member Spotlight: Sara Kraft, AstraZeneca
May 26, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our Member Spotlight series, we talked with Sara Kraft, Director of Innovation and Business Strategy at AstraZeneca, about her role, standing up a new innovation function, and more.
Article H&M’s CTO on Scaling Innovation, Privacy, and Thinking Like a VC
December 16, 2022 | By Meghan Hall, Scott Kirsner
H&M Group's Chief Technology Officer, Alan Boehme, shares how the company is moving forward in creating customer experiences; addresses his thoughts on acting like a venture capitalist inside a corporation; and gives advice on creating aligned incentives.
Article Member Spotlight: Djuana Stoakley, Entergy
September 13, 2022 | By Nora Swidey
Djuana Stoakley is the Lead Strategic Designer at KeyString Labs. KeyString Labs is the innovation branch of Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company which delivers electricity to three million customers in the southern United States. We spoke with Stoakley as part of our IL Member Spotlight Series.
Article Venture Studio Profile: Co-Created
September 12, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Co-Created is a venture studio headquartered in New York City, which helps corporations to create both spin-ins and spin-outs. As part of our venture studios initiative, we spoke with Ron J. Williams, Partner at Co-Created, to hear about the firm’s collaboration model, the corporations it has worked with, and more.
Article Venture Studio Profile: Mach49
September 9, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Mach49 is a growth accelerator headquarted in Silicon Valley, California, that helps global corporations to build new ventures and expand their corporate venture investing capabilities. As part of our venture studios series, we spoke with Mark Simoncelli, Chief Revenue Officer with the firm, to learn more about its collaboration model,...
Article Innovating County Government: Internet Hotspots, Training, and Challenge-Based Procurement
September 1, 2022 | By Nora Swidey
In the midst of the pandemic, residents of Cuyahoga County without access to the internet at home struggled to stay connected in an increasingly digital world. The Cuyahoga County Office of Innovation and Performance responded quickly, setting up internet hotspots across the county.
Article Inside CareQuest’s Accelerator, Which Seeks to Improve Health Equity and Access
August 31, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
CareQuest Innovation Partners, an organization focused on oral health transformation, teamed up with MATTER, a healthcare incubation and innovation organization to create SMILE Health, a first-of-its-kind oral health accelerator. SMILE Health is focused around increasing access and equity in oral health for more positive public health outcomes. Kirill Zaydenman, VP...
Article Inside the New ‘InnovationHQ’ at MIT
August 24, 2022 | By Nora Swidey
MIT’s InnovationHQ stands on the eastern edge of the university’s campus, amidst several on-going construction projects. On one side of the street, Google continues to expand its Cambridge office, and on the other is a building with the MIT-appropriate address of 314 Main Street. It houses a new Boeing R&D center, the MIT...
Article Spinning Out from Shell: A CEO Shares Advice
August 18, 2022 | By Nora Swidey
Cumulus Digital Solutions, a Cambridge startup that uses software and sensors to analyze and record the quality of manual work, spun out of the Shell TechWorks innovation center in 2016. Co-founder and CEO Matthew Kleiman discussed how he and his team spun out Cumulus from Shell; why spin-outs fail so often; how...
Article Healthcare Leaders Discuss the Biggest Trends of 2022
August 12, 2022 | By Nora Swidey
At our most recent event, we gathered several healthcare leaders to chat about the most impactful trends in the industry this year. Prashant Srivastrava of Innosight, Caroline Pepek of MassBio, and Julia Jackson of Takeda shared their thoughts. One of the most impactful trends? Consumer expectations for a customized experience.
Article Examples: 10 Large Companies Taking the Lead on Web3
July 22, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our deep dive into Web3 strategy, we’re looking a cross-section of companies that have begun using technology like NFTs, cryptocurrency wallets, and blockchain.
Article Examples: How 10 Large Companies are Experimenting in the Metaverse
July 19, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Has your organization begun dipping a toe into the metaverse yet? As part of our deep dive into the metaverse and Web3, we’ve compiled capsule case studies of ten companies that have. The companies span a range of industries, with differing motivations behind their metaverse debuts.
Article Venture Studio Profile: Pioneer Square Labs
July 13, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
T.A. McCann, Managing Director at Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs, spoke with us about how PSL’s models work, the ventures it has built, and what corporate leaders need to consider before partnering with a venture studio.
Article Venture Studio Profile: Enhance Ventures
July 13, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our exploration of the world of venture studios, we spoke with Alper Celen, Founding Partner at Enhance Ventures, to better understand the Dubai-based studio’s model; successful collaborations from the recent past; the funding model it uses; and more.
Article Venture Studio Profile: Rainmaking
July 13, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our series exploring the landscape of venture studios, we spoke with Jordan Schlipf, Founder and CEO of Rainmaking Venture Studio UK, about the studio’s operations, partners and models.
Article Venture Studio Profile: U+
July 13, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Lisa Rippington, Director of Revenue Operations at U+, a venture builder, shared information about the collaboration model U+ uses, corporate partnerships, and more in an interview for our series exploring the world of venture studios and venture builders.