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AUGUST 1, 2023
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2017
In a world hungry for great leadership, these are just a few of the questions that too many leaders seem incapable of answering. I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2011
Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2012
Sensible in theory, this strategy almost always destroys value in practice. Frequently, VCs disagree with a key element of strategy, often how aggressively monetize the company at the expense of other growth. The CEO, the VC reminds us, serves at the pleasure of the board. The downsides to doing so are several-fold.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Moving from command-and-control leadership behaviors to improvement leadership behaviors will be required. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. So, they create workarounds, which result in defects and, in some cases, deaths.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. 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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2011
Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.
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