Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values.

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Books Leadership Venture Funding Learning-by-Doing 215

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Venture capitalists exhibit some strange behaviors, but none is more bizarre than the near-inevitable scheming to remove a company's founder-CEO. The process, instituted by a particular stripe of venture capitalist, represents the acme of "adult supervision" by the VC, a destroy-the-village-to-save-it moment of investor heroism.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Gordon CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a world hungry for great leadership, these are just a few of the questions that too many leaders seem incapable of answering. I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding.

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Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Last month, Mr. President, you held a summit meeting with 20 of the nation's top CEOs to look for ways to spur job creation. But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs. Big Business is not a major job creator.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. A McKinsey global survey notes that CEOs spend about 17% of their time with customers. Mike Harper, the former CEO of ConAgra, had a heart attack in 1986.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. And companies in Accra include venture fund Oasis Capital and agricultural private equity house Injaro Investments.

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