Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. Investors have perpetuated a compensation structure where VCs can generate significant personal income over their career, even when they make no money for their LPs. The VC industry has failed to innovate.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. Social innovation. Employee incentives. Social investment.

Innovation 8

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 8