Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.".

Christensen 19

Christensen Metrics Fixed Costs Business Model 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

This enables engineers to fine-tune a “high-resolution blast” so that it produces more predictably sized rock and dirt for subsequent loading, hauling and grinding, which together account for most of a mine’s operational costs.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. That helped BlueArc raise another $28 million in VC funds.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. When for-profit investors fund technology solutions, they naturally seek good returns on their investments. It crashes the latest version of the operating system that just got installed. Yet there is a third way.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. Omniture has been acquired by Adobe, and was venture-funded by Silicon Valley firms such as Hummer Winblad. Costs are low.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Even better.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8