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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. Invest real money. Think weekly, not quarterly.