Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. Efforts to foster inclusivity also extend to arts and creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. But the reality of competition today is that long-term success is virtually impossible without short-term stumbles.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

.” They’re “all about the pitch and the deal” and are eager to sprint for short-term payoffs. As one of the world’s most accomplished venture capitalists adopts a new role at his company, it might be time to adopt some of his insights at your company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

First, we analyzed the effects of short-term cross-cultural experiences in a longitudinal field experiment. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source. We tested the entrepreneurial capabilities (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. It can keep you informed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

In this spirit, organizations like BMW , Citigroup and others have taken cues from the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, creating venturing arms that develop growth portfolios that evaluate and fund opportunities independently from the company's core business. Redefining Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy' So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

However, even as a nonprofit, we believed in running the organization as a business; we would sell the product at a margin, and any "profits" would be reinvested back into the company to fulfil our longer term goal: to create a line of affordable medical devices that could save the lives of millions of at-risk babies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The final reason for Israel’s entrepreneurial dynamism is based on the logic of innovation clusters: Early success breeds continued success. That’s the good news.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures. But we agree with Mike Moritz, a leading venture capitalist at Sequoia Partners, who told us, “Pivot means you’ve failed. Innovation &amp Entrepreneurship Book.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Rather than relying on venture capitalists and marketers to try to project nascent demand for new innovations, creators can directly reach out to customers and communities to refine ideas and gauge interest. Crowdfunding, however, shows that platforms can also serve as the basis for lasting businesses and important innovations.

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