Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

Stage-Gate 14

Stage-Gate PR CEO Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Another study by Washington University professors of 86,000 science and engineering graduates showed that age was not a significant predictor of becoming an entrepreneur. In my book, Mastering the VC Game , I describe a metaphor for the three stages of a start-up: the jungle, the dirt road and the highway.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

times more R&D than small companies, but their R&D is 13% more productive — meaning large firms are the real engine of economic growth. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ. It is well-known that Bill Gates didn’t develop DOS — he bought it for $50,000 from Seattle Computer Co.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Never allow the organization to over-engineer the innovation process. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. There should be no elite privilege when it comes to innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. Robin Li, founder of China’s largest search-engine, Baidu, is a talented software engineer who returned to China from the U.S. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Pay your writers and creative team well.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. Broadband access is really quite unique for a country at this stage of development.

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10