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. And as managers and leaders, it behooves us to be open-minded and show similar faith in our employees. "I

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. This simple strategy proved wildly successful. The Case of IBM.

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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

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". 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.

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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

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives?

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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. No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

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. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The VC industry has failed to innovate.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. 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? His mission has changed. There are plenty of signs that overload has arrived. Bottlenecks appear.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Since the last financial crisis, many new regulations have been implemented to protect shareholders, increasing the pressure on management to meet earnings expectations by prioritizing short-term over long-term. For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. 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

DECEMBER 9, 2010

His money would allow her to pursue a new, perhaps more comfortable, growth strategy, directly managing 10 new centers instead of franchising them as she'd done with 11 of the 12 existing locations. This business works only if the Calidad de Vida brand stands for quality, innovative care — across the board. So good to see you!"

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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

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Managers at companies like General Motors, Sears, and Eastman Kodak simply didn't have the tools to spot and respond to would-be disruptors. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing.

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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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