Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. Are there lessons these newer VCs should be learning from CVCs with proven staying power? Two groups to learn from. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. Are there lessons these newer VCs should be learning from CVCs with proven staying power? Two groups to learn from. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. At the time, eBay customers will still paying by check or money order due to resistance from traditional credit card carriers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." So the company assumed the software team would, too. But the results were much different on the software side.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn? Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. Key Lessons Learned. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. They come second to innovations in computer code.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. For example, building open source software, like we do at Red Hat, involves collaborating with people outside of the company who volunteer their efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It was while my father was very sick last year that I learned something important about telling painful truths. I was so taken with it that I've adapted it for my exec ed classes to help CIOs learn how to speak difficult truths more easily and effectively. Was a risk assessment presented?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” In the years since, we’ve learned a lot from people at that crazy place. His organization lives the opposite mindset in most parts of the company, especially the part that develops software for nuclear submarines! Now bend it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

But the bad news is that they have to learn a new improvement approach — one that can conflict with others that have worked in the past. By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. And they often add new ones, spearheaded by new leaders who want to make their mark.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. But testing hypotheses was very much in the company's DNA, as well as evaluating data to learn and adjust.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

You must learn to live with — not avoid — polygamy. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. From these pioneers in network strategy we learn at least three things.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In regular phone calls and meetings for nearly two decades, as well as a biennial Pioneering Leaders summit, the group has been helping each other figure out how to work more effectively so they could have time for their lives, sharing successful strategies and learning from failures. Learning to Work Differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. A week later I was pleasantly surprised to learn that 70 were willing to give Vegas a shot. We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

contributes the software and servers. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post. I still feel thrilled when someone says to me — as someone did just a few weeks ago — that learning about this service was the highlight of a weeks-long social media training.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Reports on exactly when (and how) GM’s top executives learned about the switches vary. According to one report : “The company has acknowledged it learned about the problem switches at least 11 years ago, yet it failed to recall the cars until last month.” Fact 5: Product assurances. Fact 6: An internal investigation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. What helped Trolltech ultimately save the relationship was learning how to set expectations appropriately in light of the divergent cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

When these forces are weak, as in software and soft drinks, many companies are profitable. Competing by doing what everyone else is doing means, he says, competing on price (that is, learning to be more efficient than your rivals).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. However, the new handset, its software, and the available applications all failed to excite critics and customers. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Some have argued that most financial incentives are too small to make a difference, but even in the UK’s national health system, where up to 30% of clinicians’ income is paid through a P4P system, patients’ health have not markedly improved since 2004, when the system was introduced.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. Zone Labs was an upstart internet security software developer aspiring to disrupt established giants such as Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software, and Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Apple learned this the hard way. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. Create a product or candidate that connects users, and your message — and advantage — will spread rapidly.

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