Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2016
How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? Similarly, Facebook’s Blueprint courseware initiative launched in 2015 champions new user capability. That’s platform leadership. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2016
For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2017
We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. One example is Ross Stores: It created an innovative off-price fashion retail format in 1982, which led to its IPO in 1985. But seven of our top 10 tech CEOs relied on other sources of value creation over the period we examined.
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