Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

It's deciding to stop talking about the competitive threat, and instead asking what it will take to leapfrog those competitors. They have the spirit of entrepreneurship (that Paul Graham has described as missing after Yahoo started to grow) — with people inventing and creating. Become learning machines. Can't tell yet.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

At a TechCrunch conference in 2011, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joked, apparently proudly , that “I think I’ve got 20,000 years of jail time in front of me.” Uber charges that these rules are anti-competitive, but many of them are at least theoretically designed to keep customers and drivers safe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." The pressure on the company by the investing community (among others) was so severe that it eventually split into two, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions in January of 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Spanish-born Roberto Alcazar, who started his branded content agency EOIntegration.com at Grind at the end of 2011, told me one of the things he likes about Grind, "is that you get to interact whether you want to or not. There are lots of people with different backgrounds and disciplines and it keeps you up to speed and up to date. "I

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. It’s a truly insightful mechanism for explaining why specific geographies can maintain competitive advantage despite high cost structures and other structural disadvantages.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Then, this past Monday, you appointed General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair your new council on jobs and competitiveness. Jeff Immelt is by all accounts an excellent CEO and a strong advocate of American competitiveness. But again, Mr. President, he is exactly the wrong person to talk to.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

You can check out the prototype of one option the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority already has up on its website, which corrals no fewer than 49 such labels into the categories like “organic,” “animal welfare,” and “fair trade” so consumers can identify the ones they care most about.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Their model wasn’t a fit with clinicians’ busy schedules — particularly given that the vast majority of the clinician innovators applying for one of our accelerator grants have no intention of ever leaving their day job to pursue full-time entrepreneurship. From the start of a project, we cultivate entrepreneurial thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

While heated debates continue over the impact of the patent wars on market competitiveness, the implications trade secrets are more likely to be misunderstood. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was passed into law in 2011 and most of its provisions came into effect earlier this year. Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

When we left Google in 2011 and started UberConference, I learned a third lesson about hiring great talent: look for people who like start-ups. Employee retention Entrepreneurship' The smartest person in the world isn’t a good hire if he or she doesn’t have the will to do the hard work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

He also suggests that redefining failure, keeping close human connections, and separating net worth from self-worth can go a long way in easing a mind amidst the chaos and competition of building a company from scratch. Entrepreneurship' What a Shirt Can (and Can''t) Do. Kevin Plank, the Man Under the Armour Men''s Journal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Governments try to crack down on this platform of global competitiveness, but the entrepreneurs seem one step ahead. Mobile penetration, in fact, will approach 100 percent in three years and social media penetration just hit 25 percent in 2011, growing 125 percent year over year.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

A 2011 study by Partnership for a New American Economy found that 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing U.S. Examining 250 recently-issued U.S. patents chosen at random, AdTI found that over 19% of them were issued to immigrants alone, or to immigrants collaborating with U.S.-born born co-inventors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

India's leading IT companies, for instance, have developed their infrastructure themselves: They operate transportation systems round the clock, generate huge amounts of power, and run gigantic training operations to remain competitive. Since then, it is reported to have grown revenues eight-fold and raised two more rounds of funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Collins’ new capability, matured and developed by a dominant major customer, is now a competitive and profitable business area for the company. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. Aspiring governments should double down on approaches that encourage this entrepreneurship and local ownership. These policies could help create local digital giants.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn't getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 TripAdvisor may have a magical business model, but consumer travel remains a very competitive market. Think about that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

This “spikiness” is the key to staying competitive, but it isn’t easy. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 ” As Yorgancioglu notes, speed is a competitive asset. The result is a slide into mediocrity. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. The Digital Economy’s Role in Country Competitiveness. ranked 30th out of the 50 countries studied. and China.

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