Leading Blog
AUGUST 1, 2023
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. The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett Steven Bartlett has never been one to follow conventional rules.
CEO Blog
MAY 7, 2012
I choose small markets and learn to be dominant in them. I prefer to be big in a small market. In that, I talk about the advantages of being small (like the Canrock Ventures fund). I have been a niche player all of my life. Working in a niche allows focus on specialties. As I grow, the niches get bigger and bigger.
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CEO Blog
MAY 3, 2012
There is a great book Return on Influence - The revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing by Mark Schaeffer that inspired this post. I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. Klout is a scoring system that weighs influence in social media. Oops sorry - forgot rule 3.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. 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.
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. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2017
It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. There is no clear strategy for building new ventures inside the highly regulated, health care environment, and launching new technologies in health care takes a long time. Insight Center.
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. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.
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