Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

Managers tasked with investor relations often believe their role is to “sell” the business — or the strategy the company pursues — with the sole goal of retaining and attracting as many shareholders as possible. We have found this is best done with a five-step approach to strategic shareholder management.

How To 17

How To Audience Strategy Commitment 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. Another possibility may be corporate venture funds , which often have the technical expertise to evaluate hard tech investments.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

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.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches. One of the more complicated issues accelerators need to manage may be investors’ implicit bias. Accelerator programs are most successful when they provide the right help to the right people.

Marketing 9

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.” Why do they do this?

Morale 13

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Dig into the genesis of a paradigm-busting new product or service, and you'll usually find that its success owes more to the indomitable spirit of a lone innovator than to the obliging climate of an inherently pro-innovation management model. Ultimately, every management process must be a catalyst for innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

They reported to host businesses in Lagos, Accra, or Nairobi to work as product managers, product marketing managers, financial analysts, human resource analysts, and strategic business analysts for eight weeks before returning to end-of-program sessions beginning August 4 in Lagos.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

Christensen 20

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Business Model 20

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.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” I have to balance between strategic intent and tactical, short-term decision-making.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. If the health system is responsible for the entire cost of managing the care of people over time, it will have a financial incentive to keep patients out of hospitals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. A biography of Bower describes the first encounter between the larger-than-life leader and Fred Gluck, a former managing director of the firm.

Schein 8

Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 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. 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 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

While the managed care movement made a similar run in the early 1990s, the movement towards accountable care, bundled payments , and other population health efforts have not caused the type of backlash that managed care did ? According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

To get back that "start-up spirit," he offered one million dollars in seed money to any manager who could turn an idea into a new business. Most managers felt that they could be more successful by continuing with their established business. Across more than two dozen managerial teams, there were no more than one or two takers.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Venture Funding Follow-up 15

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.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

According to an analysis of venture fund returns by Harvard Business School’s Josh Lerner , more than half of all VC funds delivered no better than low single-digit returns on investment. Worse, only 20 per cent of funds achieved 20 per cent returns (or better), a figure that they might be expected to deliver.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The six activities are: 1) Identify entrepreneurs (through things like business plan competitions); 2) Train entrepreneurs (both in schools but also in increasingly common startup training programs like the StartUp Institute and General Assembly); 3) Connect and sustain entrepreneurs (through meet-ups or entrepreneur organizations, as well as incubators, (..)

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance. Nextance was an enterprise software company providing contract management software. It raised $60 million in venture capital, and eventually failed.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As Lerner writes, “Venture funding does have a strong positive impact on innovation. On average, a dollar of venture capital appears to be three to four times more potent in stimulating patenting than a dollar of traditional corporate R&D.” By contrast, only 2% of deals went to social companies.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

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. In contrast, one California manufacturer of data storage equipment grew by making a much less reckless bet.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

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 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

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. Buying the startups that get traction is cheaper and faster for them than trying to manage similar development efforts within a large company.

Travel 15

Travel Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Two Indian e-commerce platform companies, Flipkart of Bangalore, founded by a pair of former Amazon employees, and Snapdeal near New Delhi, founded by a Wharton graduate, have each received over a billion dollars in venture funding and are in a war for these customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

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. To ensure rapid iteration, we paired the ER staff with two software architects, a user-experience designer, a visual designer, a business analyst, and a project manager. Insight Center.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners. They invest millions in the hopes of achieving billions in returns.

IPO 15

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Some people line up lunches and coffee dates because they’re in search of a job, venture funding, or clients for their company. Running Meetings (20-Minute Manager Series). Managing People Book. Shortly after meeting her, I followed up with an email, asking how she’d managed to land the speaking engagement.

Cialdini 8

Cialdini Venture Funding Conference Short-term 8

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. Finally, relationship and content management tools enable them to make connections and capture user-generated content achieving both reach and relevance.

Venture Funding 9

Venture Funding Brand Marketing Content 9

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

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. We brought together about a dozen chief academic officers from some of the highest-performing school systems and charter management organizations in the country and asked them what prevented them from dramatically improving their students' outcomes.

Education 15

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

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. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded. ” Yet that poses a problem for managers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

He recently left his post at Wired to work on his own passion project- (DIY Drones )-turned-startup ( 3D Robotics ), which recently raised five million dollars in venture funding. Chris Anderson is the former editor-in-chief at Wired along with being a three-time bestselling business book author ( The Long Tail , Free and Makers ).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

This tells us that the gender gap is even more pronounced in venture-funded start-ups than in corporate America. This points to the scarcity of women pursuing careers in technology and science, as well as the need for venture firms to wake up and acknowledge the leadership potential of female entrepreneurs.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Not" is not a typo. have spread like wildfire.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

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. Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. Yet, the bulk of the hospital deaths in India happens outside of the ICUs. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8