Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents. August 2011 HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Venture funds create a basic thesis about what industries will grow, and then they place a lot of inexpensive bets and give start-ups leeway.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500. Like Europcar, we have grown globally through acquisition and needed to integrate what the companies we bought were into the company that we are.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This means moving aggressively away from fee-for service payment to global-risk-adjusted payments. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare is one system that understands this.) ” They may be frogs in a boiling pot.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. Laura Fay, Vice President Integrated Campaigns and Strategy at Cisco , has helped the global marketing organization rethink the way it approaches marketing. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. A McKinsey global survey notes that CEOs spend about 17% of their time with customers. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. So please trust me when I say that one of the biggest roadblocks to job creation is the huge logjam at the patent office that prevents entrepreneurs from getting the patents they need to obtain venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. In a globalized world, geography often intervenes. ” That doesn’t mean you should never initiate meetings if you have a specific, immediate goal in mind. (And Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., have spread like wildfire.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Fortunately, India now boasts a vibrant ecosystem of third party contract manufacturers (CMOs) who produce consumer goods in India for both Indian and global companies. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made India a top priority for growth; he projects that the country will be its second largest market globally by 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. The phenomenon is global: Chinese and Indian yuppies increasingly carry two devices. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? But adversity (almost) always creates economic opportunity. innovative alternatives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have fueled a global bonanza in app development. But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Millions of apps have proliferated the world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Global supply chains have been optimized, business processes have been outsourced, and huge investments have been made in new IT tools. Each year, the company devotes a board-sanctioned share of its capital budget—typically around 20%—to projects that are deemed to be truly innovative.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

As President/CEO of Neighborhood Centers in Houston, Angela has created a powerful model for community redevelopment with national, global application. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. Lesson: You can’t build on broken.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. Global investors are increasingly taking notice. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

We need to use the fundamental principle of capitalism — the creation of value that people are willing to pay for — and apply it to the middle of the pyramid on a global scale. We need to also teach them to grow by applying the same kinds of methodology and discipline that, traditionally, a venture-funded company may use.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

All these industries were created by startups, many of whom used their precious patents to secure funding from venture investors — and then used that funding to hire the people needed to develop the new products, services and medical cures that constantly refresh U.S. And that's just a partial list. prosperity.

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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. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. This new funding mechanism is already transforming the blockchain industry. ” Others are sure to follow suit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 This has nothing to do with an influx of refugees, or Greek debt, or even the future of the European Union. Investing in innovation capacity.

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