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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. Propagate intelligence and insights.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. In fact, BMW’s greatest co-innovation success, 12 years earlier, had been in a “venture client” relationship with an early stage startup: Mobileye, now a leader in collision-avoidance technology.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?