Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. He also talked about his stint at McKinsey & Company, the blue-chip consulting firm, and one subversive takeaway.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In one recent McKinsey study, only 24% of respondents felt that their company wouldn't benefit from a more robust pipeline of new ideas. And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. Want some hard evidence?

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And it’s not just your company. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

According to estimates by McKinsey , if France were to shift into a higher gear and equal the U.K.’s Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 A ccording to a McKinsey report , if Europe boosted its immigration from outside Europe, from 2.6 Investing in innovation capacity.

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