Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In our last post , we talked about how impact investing is where the venture capital industry was 35 years ago. One of the things that characterized the early days of that industry was experimentation. This is one of the core competencies of the industry: An ability to tolerate non-moral failure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Many innovation groups want to have it both ways, acting as a partner to the business units to help them tackle near-term opportunities, while also developing further-out, “disruptive” ideas that could shake up their industry. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.

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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.

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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. Entrepreneurship Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry. He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. The Growing Use of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities. Is your job or industry becoming more technologically focused?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. and of course the compensation and benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. It protects you from being clueless about the political dynamics that so often kill good ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

After working in a fast-growing company as COO, he accepted an offer from venture capitalists to start his own company. His passion, strategic and analytical brilliance, and relentless focus on practical results made him a rare, virtually unstoppable force in industry. A chief executive had a dilemma. So what was his problem?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Accenture Management Consulting used LinkedIn to set up a careers group — when the group ballooned to more than 5000 members, Accenture subdivided it into separate, micro-relevant groups aimed at specific kinds of potential customers. Open Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” ” Or “ maybe I shouldn’t be in [this industry]” Some women scaled back on their ambitions, while others left companies or their chosen industry altogether.

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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. So one of the other things you see happening in music now is actually the music industry getting reconfigured and being split out. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

Transparency didn't save Paul Levy from making a thoughtless mistake that negatively impacted his career. And if you're a venture capitalist — whose livelihood depends on scouting new talent and forging close ties with the best — then it's especially important to show people who you are, how you think, and what you're looking for.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Third, your network will help you evolve with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. In fact, it is the only way to catapult yourself into a new arena.

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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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