Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. While the managed care movement made a similar run in the early 1990s, the movement towards accountable care, bundled payments , and other population health efforts have not caused the type of backlash that managed care did ?

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

To get back that "start-up spirit," he offered one million dollars in seed money to any manager who could turn an idea into a new business. Most managers felt that they could be more successful by continuing with their established business. Across more than two dozen managerial teams, there were no more than one or two takers.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Funding Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

But turning clinicians into entrepreneurs is anything but easy. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Health Care 9

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

But I do know that the best leaders I’ve studied — executives and entrepreneurs who have created enduring economic value based on sound human values — recognize and embrace the “obligation to dissent.” Schein once asked a group of students what it means to be promoted to the rank of manager.

Schein 8

Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. 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.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. That dialog includes all stakeholders, from the entrepreneurs themselves to investors to government policymakers. It is hell to manage.". Even better. Not" is not a typo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

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. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may compete with their own.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. Running Meetings (20-Minute Manager Series). Managing People Book. Shortly after meeting her, I followed up with an email, asking how she’d managed to land the speaking engagement.

Cialdini 8

Cialdini Venture Funding Conference Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Women make great entrepreneurs, yet we have a tougher time getting VC backing. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools. The Start Up Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance. Nextance was an enterprise software company providing contract management software. It raised $60 million in venture capital, and eventually failed. Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo, is a great example.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital. Trying to get a fledgling venture off the ground is a full time job, and then some. It will distract the entrepreneur from doing the more important work of getting the venture onto a productive path.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding. Chris Anderson is the former editor-in-chief at Wired along with being a three-time bestselling business book author ( The Long Tail , Free and Makers ).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. This fall in the cost of starting businesses dramatically impacted the way in which VCs manage their portfolios. In affected sectors, VCs increased their investments in startups run by younger, less experienced founding teams.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. We see several areas where patients and care providers, as well as entrepreneurs and investors, will likely benefit. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). ” Others are sure to follow suit.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In Paris, an endeavor to reclaim the word “entrepreneur,” has seen the city open its doors to attract foreign talent with a recently launched tech visa aimed at encouraging foreigners to incubate startups on the city’s eastern edge. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8