Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable. So, from business books to business schools and corporate boards, everyone is talking about innovation. But, copying others is a reality of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' Measure learning, not results.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. It's media disintermediation at work!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Often, venture capitalists help young, digitally native businesses achieve this rigor by identifying key metrics surrounding user activity, registration, and engagement that will help approximate the value of data over time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Growth strategy Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. All disruptive innovators in business have capitalized on a channel of commercialization where the leading firms are not present. A new business model. One example comes from Estonia.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. And of course the more the company pushes the edges of today’s business, the lower those odds sink.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

And as the shift away from the industrial economy continues, a wider percentage of this institutional capital will go towards innovation startups through a rise in speculative investing , which has been predicted by a number of Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs. Private vs. Public.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

billion before it had even $20 million in revenues) or YouTube (which was sold 19 months after its founding to Google for close to $2 billion), or other companies whose hyper-growth attracted suitors before a viable business model emerged. just acquired for $1.1 But it''s important to consider how incredibly rare these examples are.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Many current therapeutic innovations require iterative feedback from the clinic to the lab and back again.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Earlier in my career I spent 14 years as chief talent officer at Netflix, where I helped create some of the innovative talent management policies — such as no-formal-limit vacation policies — that have since become widespread. (I Venture capitalists don’t give money away; eventually, they want a return.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different. Does pursuing a social purpose require something unique to describe and structure your business? In fact, we agreed that for-profit social businesses are a powerful way to increase impact. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

You have to experiment to validate the problem, the solution, and the business model to bring it to market. As you are testing, it’s vital to watch out for what we call “innovation theater” — convincing yourself and others that you are on the right track as a justification for decisions made in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 22, 2008

On a lighter note, Venture Capitalists, please avoid reading this excerpt Excerpts from the first chapter… When I first discovered that my nickname among some members of staff at Virgin was “Dr. The very first page of the first chapter “Just Do It&# highlights the way how Sir Richard Branson views an opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s also attracting large investments by established companies and venture capitalists. Samir Husni, Director of the Magazine Innovation Center, also points out that in recent years publishers have taken concepts from other media platforms, like All Recipes , HGTV , and Food Network , and turned them into successful print brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Startups enter accelerators for a fixed-period of time, and as part of a cohort of companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. But Grab versus Uber seems to defy this winner-take-all narrative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” It used to be that business growth led to job growth. They take a social problem, like health, poverty, or the environment, then work on finding a business model that can remedy the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Wealth inequality is on everyone’s minds these days: citizens, political leaders, economists, policymakers and yes, business leaders. The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. That’s why the most enduring cultures are the most resilient cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Venture capitalists are head-over-heels in love with platform markets these days. Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. Their current vogue might lead you to believe that they’re a 21st-century tech innovation. They’re not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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