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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. Crossing the valley.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

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. Innovation Strategy Technology' So how does it work?