Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. Crowdfunding has undeniable power, but rather than solve the problems of venture capital, it exaggerates them. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

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. Even when we don’t immediately embrace their projects, teams are inspired to reimagine them, sometimes taking them in an unexpected, more productive direction. Insight Center.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

If big companies are to seize more fast-growth opportunities, they can learn from the venture capitalists that back the most successful entrepreneurs. Venture funds create a basic thesis about what industries will grow, and then they place a lot of inexpensive bets and give start-ups leeway.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. The government plays a big role in the city's ecosystem — administering grants and programs that provide financial support for startup companies.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Handbook Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.”

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

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. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

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.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding. Instead, he found Bower on the phone with the project leader, discussing Gluck’s critique and agreeing that the newcomer was right.

Schein 8

Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google. And, in turn, that means this can significantly reduce the time it takes to bring new products and new features to market.

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Instead, managers of large organizations should try to deploy other approaches that might be more effective, such as the following: Set up a venture group that can fund internal (and external) entrepreneurs who want to start businesses that are related to or adjacent to your core.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Funding Follow-up 15

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. That’s what we needed to change.” The Future of I-Corps. Today I-Corps is running at full steam. Those are impressive results.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 13

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. Selected startups become real suppliers, with purchase orders and supplier numbers, from day one of the venture client program.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Foundations typically fund projects, not products. Foundations, in other words, tend to fund the users or practitioners, not the entrepreneurs. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. Enter philanthropic capital. Regrettably not. That's no way to build a market. Yet there is a third way.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

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

JANUARY 3, 2013

Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America. The bottom line is that progress in wage equity has hit a wall.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

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

Two Indian e-commerce platform companies, Flipkart of Bangalore, founded by a pair of former Amazon employees, and Snapdeal near New Delhi, founded by a Wharton graduate, have each received over a billion dollars in venture funding and are in a war for these customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

They''re in tune with corporate goals and how the company should ideally be projected to evoke success to investors and customers alike. By definition they are much less in tune with what happens on a daily basis on the ground than employees themselves. A company''s founders and executives know what they''re on a mission to accomplish.

Execution 8

Execution Mission Statement Team Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

A lot of the work and innovation coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is created for military usage, but then becomes commercialized for business application (this includes computer networking and the first hypertext system, which was an early form of the graphical user interface).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

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

He urged us to focus on projects, products, services that can inject optimism into the world. After some introspection, she agreed to head up Clayton Christensen’s venture fund, Rose Park Advisors , to help companies grow. Jon defined “ Simplexity ”: make it simple on the outside, hide the complexity inside.

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 people, it could compensate for its projected 11 million drop in working-age population in 2025. billion) of that of the United States ($ 37.9 A ccording to a McKinsey report , if Europe boosted its immigration from outside Europe, from 2.6

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8