Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.” Finances were a consideration. Put all your eggs in your professional basket.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? The answer, in most cases, is no. city that’s less competitive than Silicon Valley.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That fits Jack Dorsey, who became Twitter’s first CEO after playing the role of lead engineer as the product was being developed within co-founder Evan Williams’ previous company Odeo. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants. Sound like anyone you know?

Succession 8

Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. That’s not exactly fair,” Klaus said once the laughter had died down.

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Company CFO Engineering Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. One commented, “No 24-year-old engineer can acquire all of these skills in five years. ” Finance is less important.

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Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. Pricing is a strategic challenge, not an engineering challenge.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your business… not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances. ” Case Study #2: Determine what you want out of the experience.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. This philosophical approach could change every aspect of the business from product design to engineering to marketing, sales, and support.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Metrics Mass Marketing 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. Reflection items are what Mycroft was to Sherlock: the smarter — but largely invisible — big brother. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. So heres how to craft your own reflection items.

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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ethics Finance' Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Now it seemed like a hornet’s nest. Twin Debates.

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. Of 1M/1M he says, “The value of your program is amazing.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance. Case study #1: What boundaries? To succeed, she thought, "I have to fire every engine I can think of." Case study #2: Social media as a reference check.

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