Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies. The Nairobi-based firms include banking-software developer Craft Silicon, digital-marketing agency Pamoja Media, call-center operator KenCall, POS vendor Paystream, and online content aggregator A24.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Taking this strategy a step further, the company established Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), a venture fund based in San Francisco that looks for other inventive, environmentally sustainable ways to improve crop yield.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

It's a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Some key skills and strategies accelerate the shift from pipes to people: 1) Don''t talk, listen. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. They weren’t designed to offer the guidance and support for the varying stages of development — from concept to formed company — that our projects would be in. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 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. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. That's no way to build a market.

Education 14

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. They believe that the API improves user experience and makes product development both quicker and simpler. display advertisements online.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. We suggest a three-step strategy in manufacturing: Use CMOs to establish beach heads to understand market dynamics. Set up low-cost manufacturing units in India that increase profitability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. Google got its start from a federal grant.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. Competitive strategy Internet Business models'

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In 2017 we expect that blockchain startups will raise more funds through ICO than any other means — a historic inflection point. So users can set up algorithms and rules that automatically trigger transactions between nodes.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8