Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. We think cities can do better.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice. Even more, we hope we can model it for others. Either way, we exit.

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Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Their reality was the noise and the myriad annoyances that go with crowds of people jostling to get to trains. embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

’ Failing elegantly is a very sophisticated and veiled set of coping behaviors by individuals, the purpose of which is to avoid the oncoming train of embarrassment when the cover comes off the lousy results that we’d prefer no one ever see. It’s because they’ve been infected with a disease I call ‘failing elegantly.’

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

After making their purchases, the street vendors fan out into the city on bicycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, and trains. Seasoned venture capitalists, acutely aware of the problem, are often wary of investing in ventures that must create new distribution networks.

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Venture Capitalist Early Adopters Entrepreneur Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

This annotated data is greatly facilitating the training of machine learning algorithms without demanding that the machine-learning experts manually catalogue and index the world. It is working with an ecosystem of partners who are developing applications leveraging the dynamic learning and cloud computing capabilities of Watson.

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Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Christensen and venture capitalist Spencer Nam, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, wrote in Harvard Health Policy Review , “Precisely understanding the causes and progression of a disease is the fastest and the most economical way to deliver more effective and individualized therapies to each person.”

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

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

Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2015

With a $50 million gift from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, through their private family foundation, Rice University is planning an unconventional approach to developing students into leaders. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. Retired Brig. Mobile Leadership Reference Guides: .

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Venture Capitalist Self-aware Diversity Education 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S., Yet, the focus on entrepreneurship training and startup intervention programs has centered on innovation. A venture capitalist there was essentially running an imitation fund. But, copying others is a reality of doing business.

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow. Any program teaching business skills needs to train their graduates to serve both companies and society. From this, the Social Enterprise Initiative was born.

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Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Costello founded and led for twelve years the prestigious Kauffman Fellows program, one of the world’s most respected private training programs for venture capitalists. He allocated 50% of his software development time to make Chatter the primary interface (analogous to the Twitter and Facebook activity streams) in Salesforce.

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Venture Capitalist Conference CRM Career 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. Record so far: IBM has developed Watson’s base IP largely in its own R&D labs. assets of the Weather Channel).

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With the cost of starting digital companies low , local governments stimulating entrepreneurship , and venture capitalists expanding operations , graduates are seeking to become their own bosses right out of college. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Some focused on personal leadership style of the CEO, others on compensation or training practices, and still others on organization governance and design. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Finally, we need to develop training programs that give leaders the necessary skills to master the paradoxes that increasingly appear on management's agenda.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. The vision thing.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Some farsighted companies never cut back on training in the downturn, but many did.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

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. Get people aboard through short duration training programs.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. The good news, according to the article, is that 80% of respondents surveyed would accept MOOC-like education for their internal employee development.

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

As a consultant, I've been trained to sniff out underlings who can only say no (and aren't authorized to say yes), and strategically work to evade them. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate."

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Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

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 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. And here’s an interview with Sam Lessin , former VP of Product Management at Facebook, who says he has “never successfully trained empathy.”).

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Amazon, Alibaba and venture capitalists have invested billions into Indian e-commerce. The bottom line: 4G revolution is a fast train which companies must get on or they’ll be left behind. Online shopping : E-commerce is growing at exponential rates in India. It is another internet revolution, yet again.

Strategy 8

Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Don’t just make a beeline to the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; get a broad multi-disciplinary cross section. In Colombia, as part of Manizales Más, we are developing financial instruments for rapidly growing businesses. It’s a bit like saying that a baseball game is exclusively about the pitcher.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Once enough technologists and startups are concentrated in one place, that place becomes a magnet for venture capitalists and more talent.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

But one obvious entry point into is the information provided by The Case Centre on award-winning and best-selling cases that are used across thousands of business schools and training programs. This is a critical omission, as research shows that similar behavior is interpreted differently when observed in a man or a woman.

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Case Study Venture Capitalist Education Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Sometimes development involves affirmation. All education therefore involves both training and socialization. Sometimes it involves questioning and reform.

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Education Venture Capitalist Technology Learning-by-Doing 11