Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Startups and established companies bring two distinct and equally integral skills to the table. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Some key skills and strategies accelerate the shift from pipes to people: 1) Don''t talk, listen. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. The results? 600 million in new business the first year the program launched.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

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. There is no clear strategy for building new ventures inside the highly regulated, health care environment, and launching new technologies in health care takes a long time. Insight Center.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. Yet, the bulk of the hospital deaths in India happens outside of the ICUs. Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

It is as plain as day that women are equally qualified to lead in terms of skill and talent, yet we capture far fewer job slots at the top. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America. The Promotion Paradox. What, then, is the solution in the short terms?

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 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

Her ideal candidate needed to have topnotch development skills, be conversant in multiple programming languages, and have a deep understanding of emergent web technologies. 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

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Craft unions and other skilled labor organizations also seem destined to bring badging to their memberships. The ability to measure and assess real learning and skills acquisition in virtual environments will. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option? innovative alternatives.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Both Singapore and Israel have liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 I t’s role in welcoming Syrian refugees notwithstanding , Germany’s policies towards highly skilled immigrants from outside the EU remain ambivalent, at best. billion) of that of the United States ($ 37.9

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8