Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. There is, of course, no one way to do a good pitch remotely during these trying times. In fact, in-person pitches may now be a thing of the past. Conclusion. From BlueSky AI.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. cloud, microservices, APIs, and the like).

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. A balanced nutritional diet, a balanced reading diet, and of course that balance between our personal and professional lives.

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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?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

” In a two-part study, we observed that venture capitalists adopt markedly different stereotypical notions of female and male entrepreneurs during their decision-making processes. Our results reveal striking differences between venture capitalists’ gender-stereotypical beliefs and actual performance of these ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value. But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Leaders must develop an eye and ear for this weakness – and must try to listen for it in every conversation and look for it in every ops review. Massive amounts of energy are poured into sophisticated justifications and rationalizations for certain courses of action, and there is veiled blame for everything outside the team’s control.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After almost three decades of working with large corporations and entrepreneurs, I've developed a theory. Now, this theory hasn't been vetted with controlled experiments and testing. It is based solely on experiential and intuitive data drawn from my life experiences. It is what defines who they are and why they're here.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Across the pond, John Whitehead, the former managing partner of Goldman Sachs and the board chair for several nonprofits, approached the dean of Harvard Business School with a similar idea. He asked how could HBS apply its distinctive competencies to help improve management within the social sector?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent. But while precision medicine is already extending lives and improving the quality of patients’ lives, the experts believe there is much to be done to expand its use.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The product manager, who had come up with what he thought was an airtight, iron-clad, compelling and irrefutable business case for launching a fairly clever innovation, completely failed to persuade the impassive CMO. He wouldn't approve any further development. Over 90 minutes into the meeting, the frustration boiled over into anger.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. 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. What does it all mean for the future of AI?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust. Investors in publicly traded companies are understood to desire stable, predictable earnings and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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? Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

You move out of your comfort zone, away from the known, and at every step you have to stop, reevaluate, and recalibrate your course. Vision” implies you have a view of exactly where you want to go and you chart a course accordingly, like plotting a journey on a map, a straightforward road with no distractions, roadblocks or alternate routes.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Of course not. But many times they’ve actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. People are relocated or hired locally to staff the outpost.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

The good news is that transactions often happen as a matter of course when sales teams focus on building great relationships with generosity. That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. One managing partner credited the outreach with producing a 750k deal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in less than a year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But that is the territory of entrepreneurship — even with deep financial backing from the rare venture capitalist or angel investor (yes, these are the exceptions in entrepreneurship, not the rule), long term viability of any venture is far from guaranteed and can leave the corporate partner in the lurch. (No

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. Start with the investment bankers whose livelihood it is to advise on acquisitions, talk to stock exchange officials, and meet with the late stage PE fund managers. Look beyond what people tell you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. The effort also positions Medtronic to dramatically expand in those markets as it develops new technologies that lower costs. (

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I would become a better teacher , help democratize management learning, and secure my own and my school’s place among the survivors and beneficiaries of digital disruption. All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Sometimes development involves affirmation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Not one retired to the golf course. “Within weeks of retiring I had opportunities to join a major board, and exciting invitations from venture capitalists to play an active role in FinTech companies. I developed a lot of comrades over the years, and you don’t see them as much anymore.”

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

At the end of April, the Silicon Valley startup Secret opted to return a bunch of venture capitalists’ money and shut down. I also have significant experience developing anonymous and pseudonymous digital identities; last year, in The Atlantic, I wrote about how I used social media to build a pseudonymous blogging brand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

“This is a key metric that all senior managers should be monitoring. It’s also a useful metrics for venture capitalists, private equity investors, and investment analysts. There are, of course, other needs as well. What are some of the common mistakes managers make when calculating EVC?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Cities live or die as economic entities, and Detroit''s economy of course grew up around its automotive entrepreneurs. That''s partly because they''re older cities with smaller land areas to manage. and venture capitalist. It has also been uniquely dysfunctional. Policy innovation.

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