Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2011
The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2012
Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2015
Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real progress has been harder to come by. You have to be tracking trends your competitors haven’t yet noticed, then figuring out ways of using them to upend traditional business models. Leverage embedded competencies and assets.
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