Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Meanwhile Harvard Business Review has been focused on this issue, with our most recent cover story titled "How to fix capitalism — and unleash a wave of innovation and growth". Big opportunities exist for organizations challenge existing beliefs, to innovate, and to leverage to create value through new products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Many current therapeutic innovations require iterative feedback from the clinic to the lab and back again.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. That failure is not due to a lack of trying. Companies dedicate vast amounts of time, money, and effort to organic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. And who can forget that only two years ago, Vinod Khosla said that only the young can innovate. That VC might not even take the meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. At the same time, there is an abundance of local capital ready to deploy to feed new ventures. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets.

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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. The Global Digital Economy. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. It can keep you informed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. The main problem is, though, that most ICO’s don’t actually offer equity in start-up ventures; instead, they only offer discounts on cryptocurrencies before they hit the exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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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. Globally competitive. Practical solutions. Speeding the recovery. growth and dynamism.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Learn from your students.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. That’s the good news.

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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

MAY 3, 2018

In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. But China has a long way to go to play this role. Now, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. Distributed Database.

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