Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Their stories are prominent examples of a widespread pattern. Interacting with two or more cultural contexts can help immigrants combine diverse ideas, solutions, and customer problems in order to create something entirely new. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult. where he later cofounded Google. In the U.S.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. With the encouragement of City Hall, entrepreneurs in Boston's Innovation District created Innovation District Entrepreneurs After work (IDEA) to organize community events. This can be countered with a strong message to entrepreneurs that they need to play a role in community building.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. Almost any business school professor will explain to her students that there are differences between managing organizations that are capital-intensive and those that are not. Let’s offer a tangible example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Despite the known benefits of having an extensive and diverse network, many people “shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because networking makes them feel inauthentic and physically dirty ,” says Gino. For example, you might ask: “Which work project are you most excited about right now?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. Some organizations use models without knowing it. Other organizations develop sophisticated models. In these cases, the models organize the firehose of data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

The only thing that surprises me about the recent furor over sexual harassment by Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that people are surprised. In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level. The risk is what makes it “fun.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

But if that's all that happens, it will be a disservice to our organizations. Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ). So as a follow-up, Whitney Johnson countered with a more diverse list. But he did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

But if that's all that happens, it will be a disservice to our organizations. Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ). So as a follow-up, Whitney Johnson countered with a more diverse list. But he did.

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Venture Capitalist COO Conference Film 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

During the past century, governments and charitable organizations have mounted massive efforts to address social problems such as poverty, lack of education, and disease. Too often donors starve organizations and entrepreneurs by refusing to cover overhead. This makes it impossible for social organizations to scale.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Vogel tells it in his painfully long but hugely informative biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — which I read on trains and planes and in hotel rooms during a trip to China in June organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation — many Communist Party officials were sympathetic to the protesters.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

We identified four key areas where gender plays a huge role: Women protagonists are mostly found in “pink” industries, organizations, or roles. Just like organizations today are expected to have diversity measures in place, business schools should be held to a higher standard when it comes to the primary teaching tools they use.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. We had long been interested in venture investing. “You are crazy.”

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