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

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 20

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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

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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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Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care. The Power of Digitalizing Healthcare.

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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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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 15

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. As students of disruption realize, a new technology is never a disruption on its own.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., As Moore’s Law marches on, we have more power in our smartphones than the most powerful supercomputers did 30 or 40 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers?

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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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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. SXJapan panel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Thus, the new behavior on social networks is to develop, as one venture capitalist quipped , "a precious journal of moments to look at in the future.". Psychologists have long understood the power of psychological hoarding. feel I need to grab it before it's gone." We're wired to hoard. Humans are competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

When we''re trying to implement a new idea, explore a dream, or disrupt ourselves , we often have to bridge a language gap: for example, the seemingly impenetrable dialect of technology, or the specialized lingo associated with a particular profession, jargon of venture capitalists, or even the patois of a different team within your firm.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

After retirement, CEOs must grapple with a loss of power, prestige, and immense responsibility. “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. It’s not the plane, nor the power.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

But just like Autotune and other technologies that allow passable music talents to turn into global powerhouses, lower costs and increased understanding of the process of innovation can allow anyone to be a competent entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy.

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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. Calculating organic growth.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. 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. Among other things, managers also need to manage the development of ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Other organizations develop sophisticated models. In this article, I explain why many models are better than one and also describe three rules for how to construct your own powerful ensemble of models: spread attention broadly, boost predictions, and seek conflict. Some of those models are structural and meant to capture reality.

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Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 15

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 Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies obsessively ask that question, because their approach to new ideas is that there are good ones than can be developed into revenue generators, and bad ones that should be abandoned as quickly as possible so as not to waste resources. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off. Related Video. Interesting and dangerous.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” Obviously, each individual diminishes her earning power as she starts over. It’s the female Charlie Rose who never got a chance to earn the power and influence associated with that role.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor.

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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. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Innovation Products Productivity Venture Capitalist 15

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. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs?

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

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 Does Matter.

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