Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

I didn’t take their interest seriously until I saw the news in December that John Maeda, the former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, joined venerable VC firm Kleiner Perkins. When I first told my own father the name of my college major, he thought that industrial design meant creating factories. Design Tech industry'

Kleiner 9

Kleiner Venture Capitalist Industry Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'” Shell changed strategies and actions based on the findings of the scenario planning work, eventually allowing the firm to become an industry leader.

Scenario Planning 10

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. more effectively than lower-performing teams), positioning the enterprise for future success. As the Japanese proverb goes, “Vision without action is a daydream.

Execution 11

Execution Strategy Team Succession 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

When you are ready to raise money, scratch Sequoia, Kleiner, and maybe one or two other top dogs off your preview list. Their job is to make contact, extract information from you, get a PowerPoint deck, and build a profile of your business and industry. Some of these might be surprising or seem hard to follow.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8