Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

A Gartner survey of almost 500 executives at global corporations revealed that growth is this year’s top priority. But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. Call 2014 the year of innovation. Staying power is vital for innovation.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell. Voltaire got the technology down pat but struggled with selling a product that enterprise customers were leery of. Sale is a big part of scale.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. Let's start with the human side.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. In fact, one could argue that the unicorn surge over the past five years is largely the result of a once-in-a-lifetime event: the emergence of that globally ubiquitous communication platform, the smartphone.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed. Do we face a global storm of malaria? Computers Everywhere!

Power 10

Power IPO Retail Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

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. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. This has nothing to do with an influx of refugees, or Greek debt, or even the future of the European Union.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. Like conglomerates, Alibaba’s businesses have separate boards, and even separate technology teams and platforms. Global business Strategy' Instead, it operates more like GE. The article, by J.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12