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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. SXJapan panel.

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. She had also started following me on social media and frequently retweeted my messages.)

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists.

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The Insidious Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

What happens next is often not captured in numbers, but in the fine-print details of recent media reports. Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” ” Or, “ I left that place.”

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What If.?

Mills Scofield

Conference in February, 2012 was a half day event in which questions such as “What If There Were Carfree Cities?,” ” were asked, discussed in small groups, digested over a large meal together, and then given life well beyond the close of the Conference. Our second conference this past March was a two day event.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”