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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2023

Leading Blog

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. Some of these strategies are wise. Some of these strategies are foolish. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor?

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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total. Tailor existing investment mechanisms towards tech transfer.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. “Corporate venturing is becoming a dominant trend among companies. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total.

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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market

Harvard Business Review

These tactics will bring the company recurring revenue and venture funding more quickly. They recommend starting by using commercial success to prompt small, one-time defense contracts, partnering with existing defense channels, and building a dedicated sales team.

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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. Successful partnerships. Whilst this is no doubt a valid way of working with a startup, there are other, less expensive avenues you can explore.

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What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart

Harvard Business Review

Research involving numerous accelerator programs and interviews with various stakeholders reveals that startups in these programs typically achieve higher funding and survival rates. These strategies, effective in the high-paced startup environment, are also applicable to broader organizational contexts for driving innovation and growth.

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How to Attract the Right Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Managers tasked with investor relations often believe their role is to “sell” the business — or the strategy the company pursues — with the sole goal of retaining and attracting as many shareholders as possible.

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