Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Few industries, if any, will be untouched. As McKinsey put it in a recent report: “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).”

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Companies in industries with fraying barriers to entry need to think about shifting their focus from fighting upstarts to working with them. Companies in industries with strong barriers to entry should think about taking advantage of the increased understanding of innovation to create businesses that only they can.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9