Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Consider it a great personal development opportunity and an economical way to provide leadership training in your organization (or to supplement the leadership development activities you already have in place). This is an opportunity to learn from top experts at no cost. Over recent years Adults learn from a variety of sources.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation. cloud, microservices, APIs, and the like).

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Reply Leanne Hoagland-Smith October 8, 2010 at 9:42 am Agree your reading should be one of your professional development or mental development goals depending upon your own goal driven action plan. Reading a variety is fundamental to being a well rounded individual. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. These major transformations pose significant implications for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, workers, and managers, as well as policymakers for nations and cities across the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' What do you still not know?"

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

In retrospect, I had forgotten to convert my ideas into management''s currency. The importance of speaking a "foreign" language was reinforced recently when I needed a new slide depicting the gears that drive innovation for one of my speeches. Why cross-disciplinary collaboration drives innovation. It also relies on culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. Business unit executives hadn’t bought in to the idea.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Amongst the world’s ambitious graduates are some of the next generation’s entrepreneurs and innovators. With a well-developed business plan, entrepreneurs are also much more likely to attract angel investors or secure funding from venture capitalists. Some will have a carefully defined business plan.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? What gives?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Many current therapeutic innovations require iterative feedback from the clinic to the lab and back again.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Across the pond, John Whitehead, the former managing partner of Goldman Sachs and the board chair for several nonprofits, approached the dean of Harvard Business School with a similar idea. He asked how could HBS apply its distinctive competencies to help improve management within the social sector?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. growth in GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. The leadership ratings index we have developed has two dimensions, or domains: individual and organizational.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. This begs the question, why? And engagement matters.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. CIOs should mingle with vendors, customers, users, technologists, regulators, venture capitalists, and academics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Often, they come to find that the majority of new ventures don’t understand corporate decision cycles, purchasing requirements, compliance processes, post sales customer service, and the like. Many corporate executives fail to realize just how close to the precipice many startups are. Then there’s the upside.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

To drive shareholder value and be a catalyst for economic recovery, our nation's largest companies must deploy their assets in a productive manner, either internally for innovation and organic growth, or externally for corporate venture capital investments, research partnerships, joint ventures and alliances, or acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Because innovation requires it. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ About the Author.

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