Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It's hard to argue with the assessment of Thomas Perkins , the legendary venture capitalist and a former HP director (who has hardly covered himself in glory during this mess), who told the New York Times back in August: "I didn't know there was such a thing as corporate suicide, but now we know that there is.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

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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. Alignment can take a while.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Over half assume leadership positions at nonprofit organizations and almost all are philanthropic. ” Mulcahy further cautions that, “the things that work for you as CEO work against you as a retiree, such as being in command and your high energy level.” economy and to societal wellbeing. It’s double retirement.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The Energy Challenge. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. The Design Challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.

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