Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. Venture capitalists don’t give money away; eventually, they want a return.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market. Think weekly, not quarterly.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

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. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

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. Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

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. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike. This is not to say that design “runs” the company, however.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

But as more traditional businesses are being run on software and a larger component of a company's customer experience is being delivered online, everyone from marketing to general management needs to take notice. Marketers no longer live in an above-the-line world; instead, direct-response and pay-per-click advertising have entered the mix.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand. One of the startups that is leveraging Watson is WayBlazer , a new venture in travel planning that is led by Terry Jones , a founder of Travelocity and Kayak.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. 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

APRIL 13, 2015

According to the research report “ Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa ,” 57% of survey respondents in major African economies considered becoming an entrepreneur a desirable career choice. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. 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. Wait a while. If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As one successful venture capitalist told me, “we try to make new mistakes each day.” During his military career, Petraeus stressed the importance of the “strategic corporal,” the young leader whose tactical actions could have strategic consequences, advancing or undermining an overall campaign.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

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.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I was confident that inviting female clients to see a movie about women juggling career and family life would be a relationship-building event, paying off over the long haul. So much so that when I graduated from college, I wanted my career to include Latin America. Importantly, none of our competitors were doing anything like this.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. Are you skeptical about using digital and social media in business marketing? Increasingly, business customers create great content and experiences to market to their own customers, so they know what they want from suppliers when they themselves are the potential buyers.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Audience Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. In my study of thirty-nine midcareer man­agers and professionals considering major career changes, I ob­served directly how much their old networks can “bind and blind” them. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

A great example is this 2009 video featuring Best Buy Chief Marketing Officer Barry Judge, in which he explains his philosophy of marketing and how the company should interact with customers.). Transparency didn't save Paul Levy from making a thoughtless mistake that negatively impacted his career.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Leadership PR Sharpe 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. Eight years ago, it was important for me to get to know marketing and sales leaders in other companies as we were rebuilding these functions. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Learn more about your market value. Start a blog.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then, after hearing too many young women’s stories of venture capitalists who asked for sex in return for funding, I stepped back from participating in the startup ecosystem, the driving economy of Silicon Valley. I left that industry, too, becoming an independent consultant and advisor.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

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.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8