Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.” Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. Many public traded companies, such as Alphabet, Intel, and Apple are, in part, venture capitalists in disguise.

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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).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. The operative question for them is, not “How confident am I that this investment will yield a positive return?” Innovation Project management' All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Ask anyone in technology. That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. Africa has a limited talent pool, particularly in technology fields. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Historically, venture capitalists have bypassed founders’ limitations and desire for control by swapping in new CEOs who have more professional experience. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). Editor's Note: This post was written with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (Canada).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Carl had a Ph.D. But he came from a family with humble roots.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. from offshore.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist and an investor in Couchsurfing, Getaround, Uber and other startups in this space, believes these services will have a major impact on the economics of cities; “This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”. Government Technology'

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz kicks off an inspired post on scaling by quoting the rapper Dorrough, who tells anyone with “a dollar in your pocket, a twenty in your wallet” to focus on one thing: “Get big. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management' The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Successful UEs would be expected to become the next generation of local angel investors and venture capitalists. operations. Miami’s median income was 10 times that of most of the cities where Unamano operated. How can we hit 25 developing countries by 2020 if we get distracted by operations in the U.S.?

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

opened in 1959 and is still operating. Charles D''Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at Louisiana State University, offers some analysis: "Incubators do work, but they must be more than a real estate entity offering executive suite services. Most of them fail. Success is More Than Funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Venture capitalists tout their latest investments as potential disruptors. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. Well, since 1985, Intel has generated cumulative operating income before depreciation of $287.4 How has this strategy worked? Absolutely.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

It was quite popular to established research laboratories and skunkworks operations that would allow employees to focus on technologies and offerings intended to grow the business. This take on risk/reward doesn't really take advantage of all the advancements in business and technology over the last 20 years.

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