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. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 17

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.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

CEO 9

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylor 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a world hungry for great leadership, these are just a few of the questions that too many leaders seem incapable of answering. I first encountered the term last year, in an intriguing interview with a CEO named Victor Ho, cofounder of a customer loyalty company that has raised more than $100 million in venture funding.

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Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. The Careful-What-You-Wish-For Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Moving from command-and-control leadership behaviors to improvement leadership behaviors will be required. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014. So, they create workarounds, which result in defects and, in some cases, deaths.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

A conversation with Kapor Capital’s founders on what drives them and their investment choices.

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Venture Funding Finance Diversity Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. Those factors do play important roles, but the most important thing driving America’s success has been its unparalleled scientific leadership.

Company 8

Company Innovation Competitive Advantage White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy decided that, in order to outsource its filtering to professional investors, BMW would not consider a startup unless it has graduated from a prestigious accelerator, has received professional venture funding, or includes a successful serial entrepreneur as part of its senior leadership team.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Leadership: the percentage of executive time that gets devoted to mentor­ing innovation projects, and 360-degree survey results that reveal the extent to which execu­tives are exhibiting pro-innovation behaviors. Working to eliminate bureaucratic impediments to innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

technological and economic leadership in the world. He insisted that the "first to invent" patent system gave his firm the time not only to determine which were the best inventions to pursue without squandering the firm's precious resources, but to secure venture funding as well.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding System Industry 16