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How to Attract the Right Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Managers tasked with investor relations often believe their role is to “sell” the business — or the strategy the company pursues — with the sole goal of retaining and attracting as many shareholders as possible. We have found this is best done with a five-step approach to strategic shareholder management.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. It doesn''t have to be this way.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. And corporate venture funds, if well managed, can avoid the fickleness problem that plagues independent venture capital and crowdfunding. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Help Us Innovate the Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

Governments have long invested in specific industries, offered tax holidays, and rolled out other policies to attract companies to particular regions with the goal of creating jobs and growing the tax base. If job creation is the primary policy goal, then all forms of entrepreneurship need to be explored. But it is much more than that.