Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Entrepreneurship is conflated with innovation. Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And who can forget that only two years ago, Vinod Khosla said that only the young can innovate. But bear with me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. The results of Union Market’s efforts to curate and encourage a diverse group of entrepreneurs have been promising.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. The translation involves people and processes.

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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. A hallmark of the Doerr Institute is its focus on cultural and global diversity and inclusion. Retired Brig.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

more than half of venture capital investment and nearly six in ten of U.S. Urban areas provide the diversity, creative energy, cultural richness, vibrant street-life, and openness to new ideas that the talent who launch and work for startups is looking for. Creativitiy vs. the techies. Across the U.S., startups are in urban zip codes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

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. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. Increase your R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If you are an aspiring PM concerned you lack the basic tech skills for the role, you might consider taking online courses such as the renowned Introduction to Computer Science ( CS50 ) course offered by Harvard University or one of the many intro and advanced technology courses offered by The Flatiron School.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. Often, venture capitalists help young, digitally native businesses achieve this rigor by identifying key metrics surrounding user activity, registration, and engagement that will help approximate the value of data over time. Sometime soon, the world around us will be smart.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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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. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.

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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. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

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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. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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