Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. These are: Communication: Executives in Alpha organizations tend to hoard communication. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 75

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 75

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. These are: Communication: Executives in Alpha organizations tend to hoard communication. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 58

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 58

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. These are: Communication: Executives in Alpha organizations tend to hoard communication. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R.

Venture Capitalist 54

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 54

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. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Venture capital and private equity firms tend to congregate in certain areas—notably Silicon Valley, New England and New York. Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors.

Company 52

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

If you’d like to have an in-person meeting with venture capitalist Brad Feld , there’s only one place where you can do it: Boulder, Colorado. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him.

Travel 10

Travel Execution Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

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. The internet and, more broadly, technology, progress developmentally.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they''ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center. It''s like that. You can see why: For decades in the U.S., Ready to Innovate?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. Many large companies have been wary of corporate venturing, because they’ve seen such funds deployed ineffectively. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center. It’s like that. You can see why: For decades in the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

While progress is clearly being made, as an industry, we still have far to go to consistently deliver on the promise of high-value care through technology and innovation. That will require executives of health care providers and the entire medical community to embrace, at scale, four pillars of care.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Executives may be playing favorites with one way to approach a particular opportunity, or it may be hard to envision how a tiny customer base can get big. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Every day brings a fresh horde of visitors — business executives, overseas dignitaries, researchers, and journalists — trying to discover what makes Silicon Valley tick. Yes, visit the venture capitalists and the startups, but don''t overlook this other reality. A few stopped in their tracks and listened in awe.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Indeed, fewer than 5% of all VC-funded firms have women on their executive teams, and only 2.7% This lack of outside investment is a major barrie r for many aspiring female entrepreneurs, especially in the technology sector. While this is true of start-up’s in general, recent data show that in the U.S., had a female CEO.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Sample Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The true promise of a culture, argues influential venture capitalist Ben Horowitz , is to “be provocative enough to change what people do every day.” High-output cultures are all about fierce competition, crisp execution, and a relentless commitment to service.

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Venture Capitalist Mission Statement Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Corporate executives are exhorted daily by well-meaning public leaders that they should support their local entrepreneurs in order to be good corporate citizens and to bolster local economies. Many corporate executives fail to realize just how close to the precipice many startups are. Legal entanglement. Commercial incompetence.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. In another scenario, a CEO had one executive on his team whom he really trusted and in whom he could confide. One day, a couple of other members of that company’s executive team made a presentation at a board meeting that didn’t go so well.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

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). In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they? They’ll start thinking back through all of their conversations with you, wondering what was real and what was disingenuous.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. In fact, most entrepreneurship is based on what I have called "minnovation," small tweaks and excellent execution.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Facebook Inc., Facebook Inc.,

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Recruiters and senior executives express frustration these days about corporate talent hunts at all levels. Small-company chief executive officers voice a similar lament. Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 16

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. After all, if the client or the company’s executive suite can’t trust you, why should they? They’ll start thinking back through all of their conversations with you, wondering what was real and what was disingenuous.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. For example, Chenault knew that in his business work he wanted to focus on digital and technology. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. I have rebooted myself.”

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Executives from Shell call sustainability a "TINA" issue — "There Is No Alternative.". Alternative energy technologies have become big business. 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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Economy Execution Leadership' Granted, it''s not a perfect picture. Increase your R&D spending.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. But history shows that cash cannot sit idle indefinitely.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11