Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Do you have a partner you trust with complimentary skills? In my book, Mastering the VC Game , I describe a metaphor for the three stages of a start-up: the jungle, the dirt road and the highway. Celebrating entrepreneurial success stories in our culture and putting folks like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Page ( the new Google CEO!)

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison. perform better than CEOs whose softer skills such as team building or listening dominate.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The headline: After years of taking a back seat to survival skills, growth is back on the agenda in a big way. The companies did reasonably well on making decisions using a formal process and managing projects using a disciplined approach (such as the stage/gate methodology). Where did things start to get ugly?

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The sidebar offers more detail on how the two types of data scientists differ not only in their skills and the work they do, but in whom they partner with and their measures of success.). What skills are required? Decision Scientist vs. Modeling Scientist Who consumes the output? Decision scientist: Humans. Who to hire.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. Gates has used the term to refer to children born after 1994, describing them as the first generation to grow up with the Internet. hours' worth of media into 6.5

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Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

We've noticed that MBA students looking for ways to combine their pursuits with purpose are less interested in which sector to engage and more interested in finding ways to leverage their skills to affect meaningful change — change that moves the needle on solving complicated societal issues rather than simply ameliorating the problems.

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Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Such a skill enables a lawyer to take responsibility for a wider variety of important matters. Lawyers fit well in such situations.

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Stage-Gate Finance Analysis Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Moreover, many notable founders, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out of college. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. First Round looked at the impact of alma mater on company performance. Where do the best new ventures form?

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. A wonderful, special gift, much like artistic, athletic, or musical ones that put those lucky enough to have it a notch ahead of the rest of us at the starting gate. That aura, that confidence, that vibe. All eyes will find them. And they will attract a crowd.

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Charisma Welch Stage-Gate Self-aware 309

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Regular meditation and all the skills it improves – focus, concentration, mindfulness, patience, stress resiliency, emotional intelligence, and more – has been a massive game changer for me. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Meditating daily. Keeping a good sleep hygiene.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. Employers worry about soft skills and we can measure that and it's on equal performance with hard skills. It's hard to know when it will happen but at some point this will be transformative.

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Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even more difficult is to build a business that requires capital out of the gate. But if you need funding in the seed stages, before validation, there is very little capital in the system. So the Indian seed stage ecosystem is really small. As far as I am concerned, all those permutations and combinations are fine.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Skills, tools, met­rics, processes, platforms, incentives, roles, and values all have to come together in one supercharged, all-wheel-drive, race-winning innovation machine. We’re a bit dumbfounded that so few companies have invested systemati­cally in improving the innovation skills of their employees.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. Another one is "Salesy content" is not the same as content that can inspire sales.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105