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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” Effective communication Research from the EU’s OpenUP project highlights the crucial role effective communication of science and innovation plays in helping spread it more widely across society. technologies.”

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Why Your Innovation Team Needs a Lawyer

Harvard Business Review

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. I hear these stories all the time.

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Get Your Pitch Noticed by a Major Publisher

Harvard Business Review

This invasion stems from the explosion of content marketing , a content creation tactic that when paired with high-authority publishers can be used to improve Google rankings. As businesses searched for a method to reach their digital audience, web publishers became inundated with pitches. But clearly, the robo-pitches are backfiring.

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

As a result, a symbiotic relationship was established, with communications professionals providing information, context, statements, and experts for journalists working on stories, who—in return—were paid to wade through the various pitches from PR pros to find what would best aid their story and, presumably, their audiences.

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