Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.”

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry. Why do they do this?

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

remains iconic for its innovation and entrepreneurial culture, its foreign aid apparatus devotes a mere 1% of its spending to entrepreneurship programming (according to my own calculations and those of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs ). While the U.S. We know what a disunited Europe looks like.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2% GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. Especially right now.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management. Gerstner, Jr. Enter the Chief Data Officer. Some data use cases are obvious.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. In recent research, we examined a particular innovation that had a broad impact on some types of startups but little to no effect on others. This continues today.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. How the most innovative providers are creating value. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? If the world of venture capital can change radically in one year, what else can we transform? Distributed Database. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 Investing in innovation capacity.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8