Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others. Maybe that's just the way it is.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. Here’s an example. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. D-BASE/Getty Images. Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. Another example is FunKidz, an upmarket Kenyan furniture brand that relies on Disney-like animal characters with an African twist.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. Let’s look at a few examples. AgilOne, a company that provides cloud-based predictive customer analytics, was founded by Omer Artun in 2006. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. At the time, Apple was a less-than-successful computer company, and Steve – ever the loner – had moved on to create Next, another less-than-successful one. Other examples abound once you look for them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Furthermore, mega-cities seem to be natural hotbeds for growth: as just one example, London , with around 10 million people, currently has a 50% greater incidence of high growth firms compared to other UK regions, and a quarter of the high growth firms in the nation overall. strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

As one Rio-based entrepreneur told me, "I got to nine people, took one look at the huge regulatory stair that I would have to climb to get to ten, and went back to opening up additional small companies instead of growing one big one. For example, in France it is twice as likely to find a 49-person company as a 50-person company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A simple example is the all-hands meeting. When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. states have passed new corporate forms legislation in recent years, including Low Profit Limited Liability Companies, Benefit Corporations, and Flexible Purpose Corporations. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example. Federal lawmakers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. But the economic toolbox that works for big companies isn’t the same one that works for small ones. Shift the focus to include small companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric. Rich Products , a $3.3

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation. The Sony PlayStation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad. based companies. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. Jetta Productions/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

So I'm highlighting a few companies outside of the Google/Amazon/Facebook pantheon that have built large, sustainable, profitable business models at scale. It may be one of the most fascinating companies I know. This is a company that took $4 million of invested capital to build a company now worth over $4 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. This is harder than it seems: Around the city of Milwaukee there are 14,000 companies in this size range.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. By many measures, the UK is ahead of the others in terms of its digital foundations and sophistication; for example, the proportion of retail in the U.K.

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