The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 20, 2024

“A small number of astute venture capitalists have suspected this for some time, but now we have the data to demonstrate this is the case.” . “We find that personality traits don’t simply matter for start-ups — they are critical to elevating the chances of success,” the researchers explain.

Succession 119

Succession Venture Capitalist Directory Entrepreneur 119

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I was confident that inviting female clients to see a movie about women juggling career and family life would be a relationship-building event, paying off over the long haul. The importance of speaking a "foreign" language was reinforced recently when I needed a new slide depicting the gears that drive innovation for one of my speeches.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Engineering Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Constraint Policies Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

So, if impact investing is still within this early stage of experimentation and iteration, what lessons learned from the formation of the venture capital industry might we apply? Venture capitalists finance structured experiments — with relatively modest amounts of money and time — intended to produce valuable outcomes.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Core Competence Morale 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. It’s a matter of human nature: When employees don’t trust their leaders, they don’t feel safe.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. It’s a matter of human nature: When employees don’t trust their leaders, they don’t feel safe.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

At INSEAD, two students Philippe Dongier and Katie (co-author of this post) sent a school-wide email asking if anyone was interested in cultivating coursework and careers related to nonprofits. Like a venture capitalist, he said if these experiments delivered on their goals, more funding would follow.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Bottom-up Committee Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

But even stuck in our current reality, you can still do some things to advance your own career. A male venture capitalist said, "You two have to meet." As the theory of disruptive innovation explains, the odds of success are low when we make a frontal assault on the status quo.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation CEO Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

My career has been built mostly around the Internet. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. I could not be a bigger proponent of technology.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Webinar Document Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Using human-centered design methods, inspiration for the company’s signature products is drawn directly from its cadre of famous and not-so-famous practicing athletes, with whom the designers directly interact with to devise authentic performance innovations and style updates. The returns in our Design Value Index were 2.28

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Know the ROI: As the pace of technology innovation increases, the savvy professional will curate and invest in the platforms that matter.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley , the idea that venture capitalists discriminate against older entrepreneurs and that start-ups discriminate against older job applicants.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Industry 11

Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2015

With a $50 million gift from venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, through their private family foundation, Rice University is planning an unconventional approach to developing students into leaders. Retired Brig.

Venture Capitalist 70

Venture Capitalist Self-aware Diversity Education 70

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Con: Breakthrough innovation may not get greenlit; time-to-market may seem to lag (though I’d argue what’s released is far better aligned with customer needs and more likely to successfully scale). Cons: PMs have less exposure to company strategy and are just one of many voices of the customer.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Accenture Management Consulting used LinkedIn to set up a careers group — when the group ballooned to more than 5000 members, Accenture subdivided it into separate, micro-relevant groups aimed at specific kinds of potential customers. It can also open up entirely new pathways of innovation.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Audience Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

Networks are essential for collaboration , innovation, and career development. The research is clear on this one: for a more innovative and profitable result, over time you are better off with a mix of newcomers and old-timers, and a mix of people who work well together and people who have never worked together before.

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Innovation Travel Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. That’s the question that’s always the hardest for an incumbent to ask, because that’s the classic innovators dilemma. But new bundles keep appearing.

How To 14

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8