Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For instance, in the HBR article “ Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest ,” the country with the fastest rate of digital development in the past, and the steepest trajectory for future digitalization, is Singapore. Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist, once said that software is eating the world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. But the locus and scale of this activity is now changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. It shows up in a love of the details and a culture that makes heroes of those at the front line of the business and gives them power. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. It is the end of you as a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Even better. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. He established four levels of courts within the fair to resolve disputes and to make sure contracts were enforced (the courts had the power to fine, confiscate, ban, and incarcerate). It would have been devastating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. They have more power because other people have to go through them to connect outside their group.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

As the venture capitalist Mike Maples, Jr. All professional middlemen do some version of giving before they take, whether they be appliance flippers on Craigslist or operate two-sided markets like Airbnb. put it to me, “middlemen connect nodes in a network to increase the value of the network.”

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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

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Her title is the same but her collaborative power has evolved and with it, her company's.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. We hear about these issues often.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. ” It didn’t turn out that way.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool's gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing "people-to-people power" and the "wisdom of crowds" to "democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs" in order to "create wealth and make things happen," as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. I am referring only to equity crowdfunding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

services such as Kickstarter (and others including Indiegogo and Rockethub ) have operated on a donation model. Tapping the power of the Internet, crowdfunding has proven wildly successful. I recently pledged $40 to support the development of the Polar stylus , a self-assembling modular pen made up largely of magnets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest. Based on this groundwork, the Kickstarter campaign, launched a couple of months later, was a huge success, raising millions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.

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