Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2014
It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? “Why bother?”.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 20, 2014
The personae include Wharton management professor Daniel Raff, who points out the dangers of Amazon’s growing control over cultural products, and venture capitalist David Pakman, who takes the kind of position a venture capitalist would, namely that publishers need to wake up to the realities of the digital world.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2013
Sufficient profits make a business self-sustaining, inoculating ventures against the need to pry money from tight-fisted venture capitalists or often-skeptical corporate investors. We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2015
An important but less well-documented type is comprised of an estimated 1 million small businesses that are part of commercial and government supply chains (referred to as suppliers). One might need a bank loan while the other might need a patient equity investor like an angel or venture capitalist.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2013
Often, they come to find that the majority of new ventures don’t understand corporate decision cycles, purchasing requirements, compliance processes, post sales customer service, and the like. Many corporate executives fail to realize just how close to the precipice many startups are. Then there’s the upside.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. A National Innovation Ecosystem.
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