Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It also called on investors to work to better align investor and venture capitalist incentives. Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. The alternative and potentially more troubling story is that the venture capital approach is fundamentally flawed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice. Even more, we hope we can model it for others. Either way, we exit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. What’s important is that your management team is aware of these issues and can use that understanding to develop a solution that fits your business and allows you to deliver the most value to your customers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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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." If there is one thing people in general here have learned from technologists, it is that things are hack-able — that the way we''ve designed various systems is not pre-ordained or immutable. We can tinker, re-design, and play with them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., ’ the system used hundreds of scoring engines, and all the hypotheses were fed through the different engines and scored in parallel.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care. Tightly align training, systems, and protocols throughout the medical community to ensure more consistent care and diagnoses, eliminating variations related to the type of imaging or testing performed, who performed it, or who read the results.

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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). Why do VCs in emerging markets take a systems approach?

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

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

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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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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. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

The improvised cable system reaches almost every corner of the country, but payment problems are endemic, with layers of wholesalers, sub-distributors, and others misreporting sales and delaying payments. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products.

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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. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? 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. Is the "cloud" just a passing phase?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. It started by sending out a few high potential young employees for scouting and networking.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Increasingly, I've heard people at large companies ask how to create human resource systems that support innovation. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. There's the question of how to develop robust legal, regulatory, and financial infrastructure (including payment systems). Yes, there are challenges.

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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. Record so far: IBM has developed Watson’s base IP largely in its own R&D labs. assets of the Weather Channel).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan. As the preferred and dominant form factor, developers now start with mobile and extend to the cloud. I'll get to them in a moment.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Titans of capitalism such as venture capitalist John Doerr and GE CEO Jeff Immelt are speaking out in favor of a price on carbon, to drive energy innovation. And finally, Nelson said, companies must pursue sustainability goals in more systems-level ways.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

In February, venture capitalist database CB Insights conducted an extensive review examining what contributes to the failure of new businesses. The findings raise the question: How can entrepreneurs or new product developers test their ideas before investing the significant time and capital required to actually bring them to life?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Venture capitalists entered only after government funding had gotten the company to the critical proof of concept. Indeed, as the clean-tech sector demonstrates, the venture capital industry is proving itself more risk-averse than U.S. And Apple did not just benefit from government-funded research activities. Consider Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Apparently we cannot count on traditional sources such as venture capitalists, angel investors, and private equity firms to do this. Standard methodologies and ranking systems would need to be developed to lower the risk of loans backed by intangible assets, but this is a manageable challenge.

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Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In the United States, our higher education system is broken. The good news, according to the article, is that 80% of respondents surveyed would accept MOOC-like education for their internal employee development. With luck and ongoing innovation, perhaps the US''s broken education system may be repaired.

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Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. Normal” leadership is a complex system of behaviors that can tolerate a lot of little mistakes. Thoroughly practical, day-to-day primer for achieving and maintaining their highest level of leadership, for today and for a lifetime. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Instead, his company has a system for screening and studying the 200 or so proposals they receive annually. Allow different functions and divisions autonomy to explore different manifestations of engagements with entrepreneurs, whether through supply chain expansion, joint product development, or technology licensing.

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Entrepreneur Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

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. Some great business ideas don’t belong in your company, and free-range innovation often drives value-destroying diversification in corporations.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. The net result is that many VCs now turn down promising companies that might contribute to transforming the way we produce energy.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

In the DVD-rental business, Netflix faced content costs that weren''t appreciably different from those of bigger archrival Blockbuster, and had a much lower-cost delivery system. And it''s constantly losing content as licensing deals expire — forcing it to sign new deals at higher prices, and pay to develop its own shows.

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Venture Capitalist Engineering Content Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 Create your own internal robo-advisory service : Companies could develop their own robotic or semi-robotic advice for key decision domains. Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. How many programs divert scarce public funds to discriminate in favor of certain entrepreneurial ventures, often under the rubric of "small business"? have spread like wildfire. Want to solve the capital problem?

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.

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