Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Over the last three weeks I’ve spoken with entrepreneurs, lawyers, VCs, consultants, and bankers about Bitcoin, and through those conversations a clear theme emerged: lack of regulatory certainty is a major factor holding the Bitcoin ecosystem back. In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. In fact, they’d like more of it.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Decentralization Banking Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For entrepreneurs, then, the challenge is to find an opportunity in an attractive market. But more important than the growth of a market are the big trends driving that growth and propelling companies and innovation forward. Products with very high switching costs are another form of economic moats (enterprise software).

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Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capitalist Trends 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At all costs, avoid "You''re too young to."”. Bernd Geropp from More Leadership presents Three dirty little secrets about being an entrepreneur and running a start-up business. “In You''ve heard of "speed dating"? 30 leadership bloggers in 90 minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. All recognize the enormous size of the opportunity to make a profit while improving care, lowering costs, and improving health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth.

Customer Loyalty 8

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Innovation Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Nor was Uber alone in realizing that expensive taxi medallions were unnecessary for prebooked trips — a tactic already used by other entrepreneurs in many cities. With these savings, Uber seized a huge cost advantage over taxis and traditional car services. But others did this, too. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. What value that cannot be protected will be replaced in the form of new business opportunities for entrepreneurs who can design solutions to pressing problems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. And Coca-Cola’s 5by20 initiative which empowers female entrepreneurs in developing countries to operate neighborhood stores that sell its products and create an upward spiral of economic development.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? The company needs to continue to innovate and grow.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The VC industry has failed to innovate. What if LPs structured VC compensation that way?

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

But the reality is that the youth who will be tomorrow’s innovators, educators, politicians, and business professionals aren’t ready to meet such competitive expectations — not so much because they’re untrained, but because they’re unequipped emotionally. If the U.S.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Development Cost-Benefit Analysis Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. That’s where the real disruptive innovation will come from.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. Several well-funded Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — GoPro, 3D Robotics , and Lily — have entered and left the consumer drones market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true. They’ll steal your people – and your business.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question we face each year at my organization, Echoing Green, when we evaluate thousands of business plans from social entrepreneurs seeking start-up capital and support. And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad. social entrepreneurs now have more options. They are not alone.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables.

Trends 8

Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. This time, industry opponents say it will cost enormous sums of money to comply with a regulation that moves the standard from 75 parts per billion to 60 to 70 ppb.

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp make the argument for diaspora as a cost-effective platform for emerging market companies seeking to build a global brand. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. Because a start-up is rarely paying federal income tax.

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Stage-Gate Committee Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Congress has been the piñata in every poll lately, but recently presented bipartisan legislation — the Start-up Innovation Credit Act of 2013 (SICA) introduced by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) — is proof that Capitol Hill has its share of good ideas. But the current R&D tax credit does nothing for those two gals in a garage.

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