Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

“We’ve moved from ad hoc day-to-day product planning to the deployment of a long-term disciplined approach supported by purposeful metrics.” From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. Give employees (and their dogs) a long leash.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses. You have to be willing to think long-term.

Christensen 13

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. Power to the people.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop was born in drummer Rob Bourdon’s living room in 1999 when the band was packing CDs and stickers into boxes to send to their very first fans, long before any of their music had hit the radio waves. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To address this complexity there is a growing breed of experts who identify the root causes of problems and set about finding long-term and long lasting solutions. The purpose?

System 8

System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8