Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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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

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.

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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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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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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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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 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.

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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.

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Each of them confirms that what Facebook provides is incredibly valuable in building websites.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.

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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.

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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.,

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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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