Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. Apple is a case in point, and it represents the rule, not the exception.

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