Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I learned a valuable lesson: Entrepreneurs need to have plans in place for investors to exit, especially in developing countries. Most are gone after about four to eight years, and entrepreneurs need to present a clear path for that to happen.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

This means that new entrepreneurs should be prepared to invest in them. When the internet first started, web design and search engine optimization were separate disciplines with little to no crossover. When the internet first started, web design and search engine optimization were separate disciplines with little to no crossover.

Engineering 91

Engineering Maturity Delegation Entrepreneur 91

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. Respondents emphasized that the skills required by a founder change as their venture matures. Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Several themes emerged.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

First, let's make sure we're focused on the two biggest pressures on joblessness and job generation: the would-be new entrants — the 16- to 24-year-olds — lacking the necessary skills and experience to land gainful employment, and the post-55-year-old mature workers, intent on remaining in the labor market, or scrambling to get back in.

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. These entrepreneurs and their companies are major disruptors of today’s competitive global market – and they are the major source of growth for their local markets. Local Support.

Company 8

Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This is why, given a choice, a growing number of technology entrepreneurs prefer to launch their ventures in or migrate to Silicon Valley. Physical proximity to technology creators, cutting-edge engineering talent, complementors, and even competitors matters. Tech entrepreneurs of the world, take note.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As we think about the forces that could help more businesses grow into substantial economic engines, it’s important to look at the role that big companies can play, too. Brian Knight, CEO of Pragmatic Works is one such entrepreneur. But many of them can become $1 million, $5 million, or $20 million a year businesses.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Career advancement in mature companies usually demands avoiding conspicuous failures, while entrepreneurs must fail repeatedly to get ahead. Large companies serve mainstream customers, while innovative entrepreneurs first serve early adopters. Typically, FirstBuild will make and sell up to roughly 1,000 units of a new product.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

As someone who mentors entrepreneurs, I constantly hear the question from founders located across the United States or around the world: Should we move to Silicon Valley? The talent war for start-ups that lack major VC backing can be brutal, and too many entrepreneurs underestimate this factor. This is no idle question. Costs are low.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

My friend Eric Patrick Marr , a passionate social entrepreneur, has been working to promote entrepreneurship in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. In both cities, even as people take pride in the past, some worry that it hasn't equipped them to build new engines of regional prosperity and job creation. Talk about total immersion.

Innovation 14

Innovation Entrepreneur Kaplan Class 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. Premuzic argues that 70% of successful entrepreneurs got their business idea while working for a previous employer. Tomas Chamorro?Premuzic

Self-aware 13

Self-aware Innovation Engineering Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. Many African entrepreneurs are working on how to handle the data challenge in the healthcare sector.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Thus, companies with great engineering talent have the “acqui-hire” option – they have created value by assembling great teams. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. It has nothing to do with America's entrepreneurs or a lack of great ideas. They have been through periods of exponential growth, but now they're mature. But this cycle is being jeopardized. is set to miss out.

Politics 14

Politics Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. Serial Entrepreneur" is among the most prestigious answers to "what do you do?" The resources we're describing mainly serve the risk-tolerant entrepreneur. Let's start with the human side.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Former Polaroid CEO DiCamillo summarizes the company’s failure well : “The reason we couldn’t stop the engine was that instant film was the core of the financial model of this company.” Indeed, entrepreneurs and disrupters often refer to this double inertia of incumbents as their greatest asset in taking on incumbents.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

That burnished chestnut, "sustainable competitive advantage", is largely a fiction in the "mature to senescent industrial economy, where competition is just a matter of milking the advantage you have or the barriers to entry you've built," says Chris. Before there were large industrial organizations, everybody was an entrepreneur.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On May 7th, 2016, Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old entrepreneur and technology enthusiast from Canton, Ohio, was sitting behind the wheel of his Tesla Model S sedan when a tractor-trailer turned across his path. That said, skepticism about Tesla’s self-driving vehicle only shows that good technology alone does not ensure success.

Participative 8

Participative Technology Learning-by-Doing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Many organizations and entrepreneurs miss this lesson. Consider the Scandinavian media firm Schibsted, which engineered an impressive digital transformation through a philosophy of connectedness. Apple had a great product, but Microsoft had a network of connected users. After the author was revealed to be Harry Potter creator J.K.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). What is their maturity level? A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part).

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59