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

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 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

MAY 21, 2012

The Facebook IPO has ignited a predictable frenzy. There is the same faith that, if we can just get a new technology adopted, the business model will follow. And of course, if the advertising on Facebook is truly engaging and interesting, why would an advertiser pay them to feature it?

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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

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

When markets or technologies change, it often requires entire segments of the value network to be reimagined. And new tools are becoming readily available for entrepreneurs to use in the course of building new businesses. The development of these technologies is setting the stage for machines to think.

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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

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. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures. Technology is almost always best applied as a solution to a defined market problem. It enables the product to function.

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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

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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