Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive.

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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

JUNE 8, 2015

In the 1990s, for example, pharma firms were regulars on “Most Admired Company” lists. EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. Merck and Co.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. The fuzziness was a counter-intuitive advantage in engaging diverse stakeholders to define for themselves the role they would play. Entrepreneurs, too, are moving downtown: London, Boston, Barcelona and Buenos Aires are balancing the suburban pull of Silicon Valley and Route 128.

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. For example, Google requires PMs to pass a technical skills test regardless of what product they’ll work on. VMotion at VMware was a great example of this. Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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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

APRIL 28, 2015

We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. Let’s offer a tangible example. They’re reminded that conglomerates with diverse industry focus tend to underperform in their markets (at least in industrialized nations) as compared with focused firms.

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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. A recent experiment I performed at a major STEM organization provides an example. We have been watching these stories go viral for a long time. Finally, a word about witches.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For example, a yield curve, which compares bonds with the same risk profile but different maturity dates, can be considered a model. If you notice that your best-performing teams are also your most diverse, that may be interesting. Instead, you want to combine diverse models. Here’s one example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ). For example, recently an HBR blogger posted " 11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read " — a list that did not include a single work by a woman. But he did. Find a way to act.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Professors asked students to read a case based on Heidi Roizen , a well-known venture capitalist in Silicon Valley (disclosure: she's a friend ). For example, recently an HBR blogger posted " 11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read " — a list that did not include a single work by a woman. But he did. Find a way to act.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. GE's Beth Comstock (noted in our HBR article "Are You a Collaborative Leader?" ) recently gave me a great example of how this works. "I Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Learn from your students.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

To an outsider, in fact, it’s not clear at all that the example of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s is the one Chinese officials should be looking at. Instead, the mantra is that the country is uniquely diverse and hard to govern, and needs single-party rule to stay together.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

As more and more examples emerge from all regions of the world — addressing issues as diverse as recidivism, drug discovery, sleeping sickness, literacy, food deprivation, and poverty — one begins to get the sense that there's no stopping this idea whose time has come.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

In one example, a pair of Columbia Business School professors took a Harvard Business School case study about a venture capitalist named Heidi Roizen and changed her name to “Howard” in half of the classes taught. The professors then surveyed the students about their impressions of Heidi or Howard.

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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. Watch a bit of Lawnmower Man if you want to cringe at the 1990s version of VR).

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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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