Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

It's a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. Both now lead with the same processors, but Dell offers custom system configuration at ship, while HP capitalizes on more impressive display and battery technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. The Marshall Plan, the Common Market, the European Union, the Maastricht Treaty, the Schengen agreements, the euro – for the past 70 years, these have been Europe’s best strategy to preserve peace. But it is much more than that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Taking this strategy a step further, the company established Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), a venture fund based in San Francisco that looks for other inventive, environmentally sustainable ways to improve crop yield.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Since his fund's investment, a series of very well publicized auctions on secondary markets have driven Facebook's private market valuation to over 85B. They invest millions in the hopes of achieving billions in returns.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 Some of the best places for such changes to take root are in the cities that become technology hubs: Berlin, London, Barcelona are examples. billion) of that of the United States ($ 37.9 in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7% in Latin America.

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