Skip Prichard
JULY 22, 2019
Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I 2010): 253-269. [6] He was reclusive and kept rigid habits (he worked each day from 9 a.m. Moreover, it’s hard. “I v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
A charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail. One CEO who had the ability to turn around a disaster was Frank Baldino of Cephalon. When disaster strikes, a forward-thinking CEO needs a back-up plan.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Between 2008 and 2010, over 25 US-based, cleantech-focused venture capital and private equity funds raised over $300 million in committed capital each, amounting to over $35 billion of capital committed for clean energy startups (here's an example ). Their behavior displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 2, 2011
In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S. Another CEO of a fast-growing biotechnology venture, a Chinese-American entrepreneur, added that he wanted his company to be perceived as American rather than as Chinese.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2014
Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.
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