Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Even so, for those entrepreneurs in flyover country, our digital world makes it easy for investors to put money into companies they believe in, no matter where they are.

Company 52

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

New tools, resources, and intermediaries are allowing a new generation of serious entrepreneurs to begin to bridge the worlds of hacker space and industry. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. The third business model is creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurs.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? We live in a time when many of the great entrepreneurs are associated with dramatic dreams. So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like? So what about China?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Meanwhile, the halls were filled with hundreds of investors and hundreds more entrepreneurs. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

The entrepreneur takes risks but does not see himself as a risktaker, because he operates under the useful delusion that what he''s attempting is not risky. Hirschman said, "This sentence admirably epitomizes several of the histories of economic development projects in recent decades. with the established communities to the East.".

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Creativity Marketing Operations 97

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

To assess what we already know we can save in our system and where policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, and health care leaders need to focus their attention, we categorized the interventions measured by experts into the different strategies put forth by various presidential candidates and analyzed their total potential savings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies.

Innovation 14

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today. Measure impact and reward engagement.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world.

System 8

System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8