Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. The Beta model is taking its place. Dana Ardi, Ph.D. is the founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. Investors have perpetuated a compensation structure where VCs can generate significant personal income over their career, even when they make no money for their LPs. The future has really never looked better!

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 19

The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

Zuckerberg's casual calculation reminded me of a conversation with Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape, and now one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile venture capitalists. If you were launching a technology or developing a product, would you rather have five great engineers rather than 1,000 average engineers?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Accenture Management Consulting used LinkedIn to set up a careers group — when the group ballooned to more than 5000 members, Accenture subdivided it into separate, micro-relevant groups aimed at specific kinds of potential customers. That feedback makes later iterations of our products better, faster.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Audience Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

They are eager to hire lieutenants whose career zigzags have created a burning desire to succeed in a new job. Imagine the remorse of a venture capitalist unwilling to back Steve Jobs in 1977, because the personal-computer pioneer never finished college. Small-company chief executive officers voice a similar lament.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

I could not be a bigger proponent of technology. My career has been built mostly around the Internet. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., He told me: “I’ve spent my whole career in travel and IT. AI is not the be-all and end-all; it’s an embedded technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects. In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

I was confident that inviting female clients to see a movie about women juggling career and family life would be a relationship-building event, paying off over the long haul. So much so that when I graduated from college, I wanted my career to include Latin America. Importantly, none of our competitors were doing anything like this.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I was recently talking with Jeffrey Bussgang , a prominent Boston venture capitalist. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. Africa has a limited talent pool, particularly in technology fields. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. It may seem innocuous, but that inadvertent myopia can put you at serious professional risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. The business opportunities they came up with were rated by four venture capitalists and industry experts blind to the source.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. The irony is many VCs just passed on them.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“The fact that technology has made it easier to interact with people across great distances and time zones actually makes face-to-face interaction even more valuable.” You’re not just networking because you should ; you’re doing it because it’s good for your career. Career planning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. “You are crazy.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If you are an aspiring PM concerned you lack the basic tech skills for the role, you might consider taking online courses such as the renowned Introduction to Computer Science ( CS50 ) course offered by Harvard University or one of the many intro and advanced technology courses offered by The Flatiron School.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it. ” Or, “ I left that place.”

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