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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

Last year researchers from IESE highlighted the value of corporate venturing. 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. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total.

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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. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Start Up Paradox.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. It’s not all about venture funding.

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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. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Even The New York Times —which, as I’ve noted , has not run its business well— achieved 8% net margins in 2013—not great, but not exactly a tragedy either. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Will badges require successful course completion? While recommendation engines have been fantastically successful for the Amazons and Netflixes, they remain relative underachievers given their technical and algorithmic potential. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? But is it enough?