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 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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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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

MAY 15, 2012

Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Since his fund's investment, a series of very well publicized auctions on secondary markets have driven Facebook's private market valuation to over 85B. They invest millions in the hopes of achieving billions in returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

It is startups who have generated virtually all of our nation's major technological breakthroughs in the last hundred years — from cars and planes to semiconductors, PCs, software, and the Internet — and in the process sparked the creation of whole new industries and millions of new jobs. Sincerely, Henry R.

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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

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

Where accelerators fall short is in leading investment rounds deep into the company's lifecycle, the purview of traditional venture funds. Accelerators might be able to accomplish this task by raising internal funds (which can be tricky) or establishing non-traditional funding partnerships.

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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. Digital technologies promise to transform health care. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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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

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. Insight Center.

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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.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. 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.

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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

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.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2014

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. And it’s not just the financial results that are impressive — Huffington Post has won a Pulitzer Prize, as has Politico, a news organization launched in 2007. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend.

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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. Martig was a seasoned CFO with years of forecasting experience in technology firms. Forecasting acumen.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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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

MAY 10, 2018

Taking this strategy a step further, the company established Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), a venture fund based in San Francisco that looks for other inventive, environmentally sustainable ways to improve crop yield.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Back in 1979, Daniel Bell didn’t have much sympathy for people who felt helpless in the face of technological innovation.

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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 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

AUGUST 8, 2023

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

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding.

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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. The episode had a deep impact on Dinesh.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A new generation of philanthropists, whose wealth was created via entrepreneurship in technology-driven fields, has the unique opportunity to make a real difference in speeding the pace of progress in the fight against cancer. Luxy Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Because if only Congress and the American people could hear the voices of entrepreneurs, they might learn how key elements of this new patent reform bill will in fact enrich the giant technology multinationals at the expense of American job creation. technological and economic leadership in the world.

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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. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

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