Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

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. It put one of its executives in charge of the project and told him to team up with the head of IT, even though neither had ever run a project this large or complex. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Deere’s Enterprise Advanced Marketing Group – which is tasked with identifying unarticulated, unmet customer needs, representing opportunities for innovation and growth – has created a system for surveying the motivation of its employees every two weeks.

Morale 12

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

“I had a front-row seat to over 400 commercialization projects, and the common cause for failure was that people were creating solutions for problems that nobody cared about. ” It slowly dawned on the pair that they would have to come up with another avenue to market their technology. That’s what we needed to change.”

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

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 14

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Europe, on the other hand, led by Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, spends a higher proportion of its international development funds supporting entrepreneurial and pro-business projects in developing countries. We know what a disunited Europe looks like.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two.

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

AUGUST 6, 2015

’” Project confidence, but not too much. Even if it sometimes feels as if you’re in over your head, it’s important to project the right amount of confidence. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 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

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

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.” What percentage of the leaders in your company, from project managers to execu­tive vice presidents, are formally accountable for innovation?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Some of the many cool things Jon Cropper has done includes helping MTV move into Asia, Latin America and South Africa, working with (the) Quincy Jones, and heading up Nissan North America’s youth and multicultural marketing (know the “Shift_expectations” ads?). His theme was Generosity feeds the Soul.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

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 Globalization 8