Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As Lee Kai-Fu, one of China’s best-known venture capitalists and former president of Google China, recently pointed out , what Chinese entrepreneurs do today is iterative innovation; that is, borrowing an existing idea and tweaking it for the Chinese market. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The first day was a three hour action workshop in which a group used a “ What If…? Shift Approach” to address a current concern in higher education: “What If Technology Has Rendered the Physical Classroom Obsolete?” We’ve also learned that Venture Capitalists (in the truest sense) no longer exist.

Venture Capitalist 132

Venture Capitalist Conference Education Class 132