Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. Managers focus on maximizing one’s share of the market for existing products. The first step is to find a founder’s quest.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. No innovation strategy fits every problem , so we need to keep expanding the toolbox.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. We explain each one, pointing out what IBM has done to date and what it must do next.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Finding that it helped ease his jet lag, he decided to license the product and sell it in Austria under the name Red Bull Energy Drink. By adapting size, taste, and brand, he created the first energy drink for the alternative clubbing scene — something previously unseen in the Thai and Austrian markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. Can your culture maintain its zest for change and renewal, even when the company stumbles?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. That's because the work of making deep-seated, meaningful change — sustaining success and unleashing innovation over the long term — is that hardest work there is.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Because innovation requires it. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

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. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. It can keep you informed.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. As with so much, however, the innovation landscape will be fundamentally changed by the pandemic.

Innovation 84

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 84