Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Upwork, which provides a freelance labor market offers its partners the chance to participate in free online courses. What really makes them work? Think APIs and SDKs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

When the daily deals site rejected the generous offer from the search giant in favor of pursuing an IPO, it unleashed a flood of commentary, from this site and others. Remember late last year when Google offered $5.3 billion to buy out Groupon ?

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

A pitch (exaggerated, of course) may look like this. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature. Of course with the right partner and a healthy pre-money valuation , we will consider a series A investment with a combination of Venture debt. We are currently in closed alpha and will go into a private beta soon.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

I talked recently with David Galenson , an economist at the University of Chicago who began studying prices at art auctions — an exploration that drove him to understand the nature of creativity over the course of one's career. Are you a conceptual innovator or an experimentalist? How has that shaped your career?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

But if in reaction to Pandora, SiriusXM would instead have launched a free, advertising-supported version of their content for online and mobile, they might have permanently delayed Pandora''s IPO by denying them the ability to grow users. Of course not. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. It's something that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal. The Case of IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. The strategic architecture of any business should incorporate facts from real world testing to allow one to adjust course as necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. But prosperity is always going to accrue to those who innovate yesterday's rusting, creaking institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? The only way out of this innovation gridlock is an expansion in founding team diversity. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives? What was my title?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? The only way out of this innovation gridlock is an expansion in founding team diversity. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives? What was my title?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. And of course, if the advertising on Facebook is truly engaging and interesting, why would an advertiser pay them to feature it? It is easy and effortless, all the way through the entire purchase and delivery process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

This is not a strictly either-or choice, of course. As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. The VC industry has failed to innovate. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

And new tools are becoming readily available for entrepreneurs to use in the course of building new businesses. And what’s more, unlike a world of developing for client based systems, these vendors continued to invest an insane amount in simplifying integration, deployment, and the adoption of new innovation for their customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? Of course, there are other possible explanations for this.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. Because they are innovative by nature, consumer tech companies need to invest heavily in research and development, which could be done if they had a portfolio of products at different stages of maturity, with some of them being established cash cows.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? In early 2013, Norwegian went public and became one of the most successful IPOs of the year, closing the year 87% above its IPO price. Were we a price cutter?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Stellar recruitment is vital, of course, but it can be easy for an HR organization to myopically focus on delivering those services in their efforts to serve leaders and be a strategic partner. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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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. I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Social innovation. Social investment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' They are too important to leave to chance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school. She didn't doubt the franchise owner's commitment to high-quality, holistic care; he was a star pupil in the most recent training course at headquarters.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. That’s the good news.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures. Then, of course, you can and should change course from your original vision. Innovation &amp Entrepreneurship Book. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

LinkedIn, of course, made headlines for its $26 billion sale to Microsoft. The concept was big for companies, too, of course; the prospect of finding people beyond the offline constraints, and even in the next city, state, or country, was a tantalizing one. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. And, of course, companies such as Goldman Sachs, NASDAQ, Inc.,

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