Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. So what can entrepreneurs in the developing world do?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? In any case, you don’t need outside investors till your experiments are somewhat mature.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. That way, when you come back, it's not a strange place," notes a female general manager at a finance multinational. Even though the torrid growth of the past decade cooled to 5.3%

Career 9

Career Maturity Survey Education 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc. IT needs to step up, but collaboratively — not as the smartest guys in the room.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

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. ” Finance is less important.

Engineering 13

Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 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 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This will almost surely go beyond what can be considered “side work” and they’ll need to collaborate with others for engineering and process changes. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. They saw an unexplained phenomenon, had a hunch, and started tinkering.

Learning-by-Doing 10

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

Insurance 11

Insurance Industry Policies Market Penetration 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), We also measured broader concerns such as transparency, rule of law, and regulatory quality.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

Blog 420

Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. But lately it’s been looking a lot like a mature substantial, profitable company.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8