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. Starting from explosives and farming chemicals, these B2B companies have embedded their expertise in powerful software platforms to expand beyond the traditional products.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. So they want to accelerate new product introductions and feature releases, and quickly get them into the hands of customers to get their feedback.

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Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

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. And they often lack much of the expertise needed to transform an idea into a viable product. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. From Product Development to Customer Development. That’s why he advises founders to go out and talk to customers before they start building a product that, they might find out later, no one wants to buy. The Future of I-Corps.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

New, growth-hungry businesses are disproportionately likely to innovate and to create jobs. More of these productive, young firms would mean faster economic growth. If the limiting factor for the startup economy is capital, you’d expect newly founded venture funds to generate solid returns.

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Venture Funding IPO Finance Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s not all about venture funding. Our research indicates that many emerging market entrepreneurs prioritize building their skill set or refining their product and marketing strategy over connecting with potential investors. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Related Video.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. In 2016, the U.S. Add to Cart.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 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. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with 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.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. Data-driven decision-making requires a series of steps best referred to as the "data production line."

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Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial. Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. The reason why many publishing businesses continue to make money is simple: they’re selling a product that people want and need. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend. Publishing is dead?

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems. For years, the company had been focused on product launches to create splash, buzz, and engagement. In exchange, fans got exclusive behind-the-scenes stories.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option?

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. 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.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

A lot of the work and innovation coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is created for military usage, but then becomes commercialized for business application (this includes computer networking and the first hypertext system, which was an early form of the graphical user interface).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

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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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

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. It’s just not in the mainstream media. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

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Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Indeed, over the last century, virtually every new industry was launched not by a big established firm but by entrepreneurial innovators. That's because the corporate-dominated innovation environment in Europe is very different than the entrepreneur-centered innovation ecosystem in America. prosperity. Not many, if any.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. 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. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9