First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

The interview was conducted by Art Kleiner and Pierre Péladeau. Here is another outstanding interview of Didier Lombard from a series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Comany.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Cesare Mainardi with Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (published November 23, 2010/ Winter 2010 / Issue 61), published by Booz & Company.

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Kleiner Magazine Article Cost 89

LDRLB

MARCH 11, 2013

This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. MONTGOMERY: Think about who does strategy in most large companies. It’s not the CEO; the company draws on specialists to help with external analysis, to do a deep dive on competitors, and to look at trends around the world.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2021

Namely – Best HR software small-to-mid-sized companies. The San Francisco-headquartered company is backed by bigwig investors such as Google Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, General Catalyst, Google Ventures, Salesforce, and the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Instagram, WordPress, Box, Eventbrite, Evernote, and Stripe, among others.

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Software Human Resources Compliance Management 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The SEC Chairman recently announced a policy initiative to enable the ordinary investors to invest in private companies. Currently, only wealthy accredited investors are allowed to invest in private companies. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

The big news in the venture capital world is that John Doerr, legendary partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is moving into a new role as the firm’s first chair, where he’ll be what he describes as a “player coach” to support the firm’s next generation of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

But when you suddenly accelerate and grow, whatever your company’s age, things get really hot really fast, largely because your need for cash explodes overnight. Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Pay on time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” In my scenario planning work with companies, I find this element essential. An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

Kets de Vries by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (Mqy 10, 2010), published by Booz & Company. Here is an excerpt from an interview of Manfred F.R.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at Kleiner Perkins, was recently invited to discuss race and investment in technology. And so all ears were tuned in when well-known VC Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins started talking… but Ted denied there was a problem. By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

But you’ve never heard of the companies they founded or ran, because those start-ups couldn’t attract or retain good talent, win solid investment backing, or earn customers’ good will. But for founders who are in it just for the money, there are too many reasons and ways to quit before the company becomes a massive success.

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Succession Kleiner Business Model Library 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. How might you close the strategy-to-execution gap in your own company? As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream. Where should you start?

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Execution Strategy Team Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. It was a very vibrant time in the company’s life. Most companies start with a pilot. Morgan to commit to deploy it throughout their company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. I see three major reasons that this kind of joint innovation between small and large companies is both exciting and absolutely necessary.

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Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

First, you maintain control of the company. Third, if you own the company, you can have a great exit at a low price. Fourth, if you're able to build the company without significant outside capital that may mean your business has even more "real" legs. Junior members of VC teams are paid to source information about companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

How do companies end up with significant gender pay inequalities, if they don’t intend to discriminate against women? This saves the company, on average, $5,000 per Type M hired and $20,000 per Type W hired, which results in Type Ms being paid $15,000 more than the Type Ws. But this is just an economic model, right?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. It''s equal parts fascinating and scary, just as any good slide show should be (unless you''re presenting your company''s financial data). First rule: Follow any company you''re interested in working for.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Alphabet , the new holding company created by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is a portfolio of bold ideas embedded in an ecosystem of talent and financial capital to take on the world’s toughest challenges. Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

The high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit by Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is being discussed as if it’s emblematic of gender bias in tech. Kleiner Perkins is not just about the kind of subtle stereotyping that’s common at many large tech companies. And in some ways, it is.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. .”

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