Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

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. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. It''s much-needed advice.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Urbanization (the concentration of startups and venture capital investment in cities — predominantly large, globally connected ones), and a Winner-Take-All Pattern (with the leading cities pulling away from the rest). Startups and venture capital increasingly take on a winner-take-all pattern geographically. The Great Expansion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Globalization Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

Organization 11

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care. Research suggests that eliminating unwarranted variations in medical care can reduce the cost of patient management by at least 35 percent. Leverage technology to allow diagnoses to be made, in many cases, at the initial point of care.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., ’ the system used hundreds of scoring engines, and all the hypotheses were fed through the different engines and scored in parallel.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist EVA Travel Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. Many of them utilize a goal-setting system Doerr calls “OKR,” for “objectives” and “key results.” And three or so key results.

Goal 8

Goal Objective Venture Capitalist MBO 8

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. No 20,000 tech jobs. I know many smart investors didn't.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

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). Why do VCs in emerging markets take a systems approach?

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

Most managers agree that you need different kinds of leaders in lean and fat times, to preside over growth or retrenchment, to lead organizations out of crisis, or to steer a steady course in an ocean of calm. Two levers available to any manager stand out in our research on top-performing CEOs: 1. It's time to focus."

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist Politics CEO Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. None of these institutions existed before 2009, and they were all, in whole or in part, created in response to what is slowly being recognized as a deep hole in our entrepreneurial system.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors. .” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. What real entrepreneur would expect to be have had an impact on anything in that kind of time span?

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

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. This opens up possibilities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. People manager: To what extent do leaders build competence, commitment, and contribution of their people today and tomorrow?

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. But for the organization?

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. Is the "cloud" just a passing phase?

CIO 15

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Smart venture capitalists invest in a portfolio of startups with different risk profiles and timeframes for returns. Other times, they make expensive acquisitions of money-losing startups with great intellectual property (IP) and management teams as they take a longer-term view. assets of the Weather Channel).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Why does the patent system need reforming? In a paper published in Management Science this month, economists Iain Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie put some numbers to these stories. But one can imagine that venture capitalists still won't be thrilled to see a legal liability risk on the two-year-out business plan.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Incubator Software Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

If you’d like to have an in-person meeting with venture capitalist Brad Feld , there’s only one place where you can do it: Boulder, Colorado. Last year Feld, who is managing director at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars, announced he would no longer travel for business. Tackle Conflicts with Conversation.

Travel 11

Travel Execution Venture Capitalist Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Directors keep nudging these CEOs to play it safe, filling the management team with steady performers whose work history closely matches the job at hand, even if there's no sense of "wow!" Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Chief Executive Officer Energy Ethics 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

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. Normal” leadership is a complex system of behaviors that can tolerate a lot of little mistakes. But many times they’ve actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” Friedman has redesigned the way work is structured, organized, and managed to suit his employees. Design Your System. This might involve rethinking hiring, process design, management, or organizational culture.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 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

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Apparently we cannot count on traditional sources such as venture capitalists, angel investors, and private equity firms to do this. Standard methodologies and ranking systems would need to be developed to lower the risk of loans backed by intangible assets, but this is a manageable challenge.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Vox uses IRIS (Impact Reporting and Investment Standards) and GIIRS (Global Impact Investment Rating System) to measure the impact of its portfolio companies, signaling the organization''s focus on data and metrics.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Instead, his company has a system for screening and studying the 200 or so proposals they receive annually. But effective alliance management with entrepreneurs is a competency that needs to be strategically defined and tactically executed over time, if executives are to learn the art of entrepreneurial engagement.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

The combination has created the industry’s first wireless, discrete, and switchable remote system, and has provided physicians and patients with real-time monitoring and predictive analytics that have been shown to reduce readmission rates for cardiovascular patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

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. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

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. A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. Design for inclusion.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14