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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. Rather than take the cutting edge capabilities developed in its research labs to market as a series of products, IBM has chosen to offer a platform of services under the Watson brand.

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The 5 Things IBM Needs to Do to Win at AI

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The kinds of shifts we’re talking about have come more naturally to greatly successful startups of the last two decades — Google, Amazon, Uber, and Facebook among them — and their venture capital investors. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. In the United States, our higher education system is broken.

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Its creation marks the beginning of the end of the e-commerce era defined by browsers, search, maps, and apps and monetized through advertising and the beginning of the next arc of digital transformation of industries (automotive, health care, and others) propelled by the combination of human minds and powerful machines.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. That's enough to participate in other productivity or life-enhancing investments, like a well, or a roof, or health care. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Congressional Budget office uses an economic model that includes income, unemployment, and health statistics to estimate the costs of changes to health care laws. Standard financial market models leave out fine-grained institutional details of how trades are executed. Instead, you want to combine diverse models.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win?

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