Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

As the giants continue to duke it out, Zipcar has captured 80% of the industry it created. Ironically, Zipcar repeated a story that happened once before in the rental car industry. As Henry Ford reputedly said of his industry, "If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Therefore, we are seeing disruption in the hospital industry. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014.

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Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Health care is attracting an influx of talent from other industries to tackle some of its toughest problems. New players are fearlessly sensing the opportunity.

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Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is changing the way every industry does business, including ours. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. But it was pretty clear to us that his idea was in the wrong industry space. Innosight benefits directly from one of these programs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Yes, some old-line publishers are faltering and clearly there are challenges ahead, but that can be said about any incumbent industry. Aren’t publishers failing?”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

While noting that this doesn’t seem to be the case with respect to the public — both the computer and internet industries poll favorably — she documents at length the rise of “tech hate” among journalists and other commentators, including HBR contributor Umair Haque: “Tech is something like the new Wall St.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

That's why it's usually the newcomers, rather than the incumbents, who upend industry rules (think of Apple in music, Amazon in web services, or Salesforce in enterprise software). For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. We looked at more than a dozen—both health care-specific programs with strong connections in the health care “ecosystem” and industry-agnostic programs. Industry input.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. The Future of I-Corps.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. The idea of making a business climate more attractive is not new. But promoting entrepreneurship is a slightly different thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry.

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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. It’s also vital to connect with key people who have tight connections with both startups and established companies in your industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Affiliate marketing might actually be one of the more effective (and easier) ways to partner with someone else in the industry. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

It is startups who have generated virtually all of our nation's major technological breakthroughs in the last hundred years — from cars and planes to semiconductors, PCs, software, and the Internet — and in the process sparked the creation of whole new industries and millions of new jobs.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Fortunately for would-be entrepreneurs everywhere else, the Valley doesn’t hold that claim in every industry (yet). You’ll not only find customers and employees more easily, you’ll likely find funding as well. For DC’s cybersecurity entrepreneurs, venture funds like In-Q-Tel & CORE Capital have emerged to fund such endeavors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” So Emily did lots of reading; she talked to others in the industry and learned about the cadence of development. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding. “I realized I needed to get educated enough about what they do.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it. reauthorization law, envisions a $5 billion-plus industry of camera drones being used for all sorts of purposes from real estate advertising to crop dusting to environmental monitoring and police work."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. ” We need to move faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In witnessing and being a part of an incredibly vibrant startup culture, from a 15-person early stage startup 2 years ago with no venture funding to our now 100+ person company, I know the real elements of company culture aren''t reflected in the traditional definition nor the top-down approach to culture decks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.” So if you want innovation, individuals must to be taught to do four things: Challenge invisible orthodoxies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Because as multiple studies old and new confirm, only small startups create new industries and the millions of jobs that go with them. Indeed, over the last century, virtually every new industry was launched not by a big established firm but by entrepreneurial innovators. And that's just a partial list. prosperity. Not many, if any.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. The venture industry is betting big on digital health, with $4–$5 billion invested annually.

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 Traditionally, Europe’s growth has been financed to a significant extent by the banking sector, and there has historically been a continent-wide leeriness towards the provision of risk capital by other financial types.

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