Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. But cutting back on research funding doesn’t work either. You can see why: For decades in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square, for example, has $9 billion in assets under management and fewer than ten investment professionals.

Hedge 16

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. In 2012, they were ranked as the 4th fastest-growing tech company by Technology Fast 500. Technology brings speed and scale to what previously was impractical or unaffordable. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact.

Business Incubator 12

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.

Health Care 10

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. The product is in pre-clinical trial today.

Health Care 14

Health Care Company Innovation Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. Insight Center. In the U.S.,

Health Care 12

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 12

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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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. The six players or organizations that need to be involved in these programs are 1) corporations, 2) foundations, 3) universities, 4) non-government organizations, 5) investors and 6) government. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 15

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role. Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market. By contrast, only 2% of deals went to social companies.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand. Producing blasted rock of the proper size helps Orica deliver a crucial element of value: reduced cost.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

Both now lead with the same processors, but Dell offers custom system configuration at ship, while HP capitalizes on more impressive display and battery technology. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may compete with their own.

Travel 17

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Management How To CTO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Especially right now. Let me explain.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylor 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 If things look bad for goods moving across borders electronically, they look even worse for transporting content.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. His life was set.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8