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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

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. In the United States, our higher education system is broken. We have recently passed the trillion dollar mark in student loan debt in the United States.

Education 10

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Venture capitalists are close behind. In fact, many of the great opportunities defy definition and lie in the creative "inter-sectors": health care and the environment; real estate development and information technology and cleantech; education and mobile communications. Invest time, not money.

Innovation 14

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. The local economy hadn’t diversified beyond its base in tourism and real estate into fast-growing areas such as health care or bioscience, and entrepreneurial success stories were few and far between.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

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. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

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. As mentioned, many venture capitalists use weighted attribute models to sift through the thousands of pitches that land at their doors.

Construction 12

Construction Venture Capitalist Price Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

That's enough to participate in other productivity or life-enhancing investments, like a well, or a roof, or health care. Now, instead of making -1 penny a day, you're making 100 or 200 pennies a day. That's a surplus of $700 a year. It puts the edge much further away. Into this world, we welcome the $300 House. How do we do that?

Marketing 14

Marketing Mass Marketing Early Adopters Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8