Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry. Why do they do this?

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

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.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Forecasting acumen.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. Especially right now.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. Venture investors look for home runs. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. To ensure rapid iteration, we paired the ER staff with two software architects, a user-experience designer, a visual designer, a business analyst, and a project manager. Insight Center.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management. Gerstner, Jr. Enter the Chief Data Officer. Some data use cases are obvious.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy. The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. The result is a large-scale market of technological mediocrity. Regrettably not.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Marshall Plan, the Common Market, the European Union, the Maastricht Treaty, the Schengen agreements, the euro – for the past 70 years, these have been Europe’s best strategy to preserve peace. We know what a disunited Europe looks like.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Though venture capital funds account for only about 0.2% GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Besides, as customer-funded entrepreneur and investor Erick Mueller recalls, “It’s a lot more fun dealing with customer needs than pandering to investors.”. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven. Investors don’t like risk any better than you do.

Venture Funding 13

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade. He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Experiment : In performance management, process, quality, workflow, customer satisfaction, etc., Experiment : How can we look at What/Who/When/Why/Where/How we bring offerings to market in a way that touches hearts and minds? Lesson: You can’t build on broken. His theme was Generosity feeds the Soul. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

So an innovation that changes the cost of experiments changes the landscape for venture funding. This fall in the cost of starting businesses dramatically impacted the way in which VCs manage their portfolios.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Finance Venture Funding Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? Done right, ICOs can not only improve the efficiency of raising money, lowering the cost of capital for entrepreneurs and investors, but also democratize participation in global capital markets. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies GDP 8