Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

For instance, I have 12 years of working with entrepreneurs as an early-stage venture capitalist; 19 years working for a large corporation (Bell Labs & AT&T) and consulting to their multi-national, multi-billion dollar customers; 10 years of mentoring entrepreneurs; and created a carve-out start-up within AT&T.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mentor Education 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Trustworthiness is never entirely pure. Everyone fails to achieve perfection. About the Author.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. Trustworthiness is never entirely pure. Everyone fails to achieve perfection. About the Author.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. Not one retired to the golf course. Few have to work for a living.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Many prestigious academic medical centers, such as The Cleveland Clinic , The Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson , and Memorial Sloan-Kettering are working with IBM to develop systems that will help healthcare providers better understand patients’ diseases and recommend personalized courses of treatment.

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Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In fact, no other company function is allowed to second guess the design team’s direction when it comes to the emotional and functional benefits for consumers, the interpretation of market trends, and, of course, aesthetics. Of course, design also has a huge impact on the representation of Nike’s brand across the globe.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley , the idea that venture capitalists discriminate against older entrepreneurs and that start-ups discriminate against older job applicants. Today, of course, these founders are quite a bit older, with an average age just under 39, and a median of 38.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Of course I don't mean everyone should go out and hire an assistant to man the velvet rope for you (though it's easier than ever, given the proliferation of online sites like Elance and oDesk.) There's a risk, of course, that saying no means you'll miss out on something. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

My career has been built mostly around the Internet. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. I could not be a bigger proponent of technology.

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Venture Capitalist Webinar Document Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” ” Of course if errors are going to be a font of faster learning, they need to be reported and shared. ” Earlier in his career, he received training better suited for a more certain environment.

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Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities. Learn technical skills: New companies and older institutions alike have recognized the structural mismatch between available technology jobs and worker skillsets.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” I’m clearly biased in favor of the third type of philosophy about PM (as is venture capitalist Fred Wilson ) as I’ve experienced all three and found the yin-yang to be most effective.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. As long as he gets the last laugh, of course.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. But of course, that depends a lot on what a person’s job is. In the next three weeks, reconnect with people outside the com­pany who may shed useful light on your work, industry, or career. Have lunch.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Teach a course at a university or local college. But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. Learn from your students.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. Barksdale: Of course, you always are bundling and unbundling. But new bundles keep appearing. Why is this? Barksdale: That’s right. You can’t stand still.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.”

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8