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.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

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 9

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

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. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 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. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

Morale 12

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 12

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?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. As Tilton told me, “Innovation Corps changed my life.”

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

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. It's rare to find a company using complementary technology across the entire data value chain.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. Most care-delivery systems today don’t have processes for innovation and problem solving. .”

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. 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.

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

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role. Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

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. million patent applications waiting for review.

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. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. Technology brings speed and scale to what previously was impractical or unaffordable. The result?

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. That publishers need to innovate their business models just puts them in the same place as every other industry. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend. Publishing start-ups are hot.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EBITDA Venture Funding Magazine 8

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?

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Because if only Congress and the American people could hear the voices of entrepreneurs, they might learn how key elements of this new patent reform bill will in fact enrich the giant technology multinationals at the expense of American job creation. technological and economic leadership in the world. Not many, if any.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. How the most innovative providers are creating value. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. In the U.S.,

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 Some of the best places for such changes to take root are in the cities that become technology hubs: Berlin, London, Barcelona are examples. in Latin America.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8