Lead Change Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

What do venture funding, employee reviews, project planning and vendor selection have in common? Leadership Development leader leadership skills negotiator' Let’s put it simply – they call for negotiation and persuasion. The parties involved must reach an agreement and for that to happen they have [.]

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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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. The capital markets that fund education innovation — both for-profit and nonprofit — are largely broken. Yet there is a third way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. So please trust me when I say that one of the biggest roadblocks to job creation is the huge logjam at the patent office that prevents entrepreneurs from getting the patents they need to obtain venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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