Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

No 20,000 tech jobs. These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Note: This is the second post of the Transformational Entrepreneurship series. This is not a bad thing for the startup ecosystem or the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. Thus begins a cycle of frustration in Africa’s tech sector around the ability to hire and retain the right team. Africa has a limited talent pool, particularly in technology fields.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I spend most of my time at Babson launching projects in other countries to foster entrepreneurship , but I was in the U.S. Start-Up America is getting a few things right, not to be taken lightly; but it is far from a done deal: Obama has convened a broad group of entrepreneurship stakeholders. Bravo President. Bravo White House.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Not a bad idea, of course. Most early-stage startups fail due to founder disputes, not the substance of the business. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Different operational skills.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

In a recent post on HBR.org , I called attention to the fact that we entrepreneurship promoters are too focused on start-up, and need to re-balance the dialog to support scale-up as well. But you policymakers can still play a key role in fostering an entrepreneurship ecosystem that supports scale-up entrepreneurs. Even better.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Instead, Ma studied English in college, and worked as an English teacher and translator before diving into entrepreneurship. When we think of innovation, we tend to think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming up with game-changing ideas. That doesn’t surprise me.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The idea reflects the struggles of tech-centered start-ups to rethink the role of professional managers. At least in Silicon Valley, management is becoming just another operating function, like payroll and finance and sales, all serving to facilitate the work of the technically and creatively skilled who do the heavy lifting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Without honest reviews of your work, it’s hard to know if clients are genuinely happy and therefore likely to engage your services again or refer new business to you. Most people aren’t able to fully see their weaknesses, especially from the point of view of a client. You and Your Team. Self-assessment is never easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Our team put Six-Sigma thinking to work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Israel is home to one of the most vibrant tech startup clusters in the world — why? helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Entrepreneurship almost always involves pushing against the status quo to capture opportunities and create value. The idea of ”public entrepreneurship” may sound to you like it belongs on a list of oxymorons right alongside “government intelligence.” Of course, that’s not all bad. What would it take? But it doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Moving forward without a co-founder is risky and moving on with a bad co-founder almost unimaginably costly. It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start. The core values.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Publicly reward junior team members who are doing a great job. It will show that you invite and insist on truth-telling and on hearing bad news. When you hear this kind of answer, consider it a great learning for yourself: something has remained unexplained for the team. No brainer, right? Give them personal attention.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Let’s start with the pitfalls, because these are often ignored or discounted in frothy discussions about the economic benefits of entrepreneurship. He is damned if he will pay attention to each persistent business owner, but then damned as a bad community member if he ignores them. Why would companies avoid engaging with entrepreneurs?

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Entrepreneurship Underperforming Technical Team Engagement Culture 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

Gopman’s post quickly went viral, was blogged about endlessly at media sites such as Gawker’s now-defunct Valleywag , and he became a poster child for everything wrong with the tech industry in the Bay Area. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? Studies show that efforts to stimulate intrapreneurship — entrepreneurship within an established company — more often than not fall flat.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

A closely related bad behavior is not making up my mind and keeping my options open. My indecision meant the marketing and product teams had to serve multiple personas — and ended up creating middling solutions for each of them. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Optionality will also cost you. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Which doesn't sound so bad, but the risk is misunderstanding, or quite possibly sounding stupid. It's like using poor grammar ; if you use "you're" when you really mean "your," some people are going to notice. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". is too technological. Enterprise 2.0,

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Underperforming Technical Team Tools Social Innovation Open Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. In the broader U.S. Lead collaborations, not just organizations.

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IM Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. I was brought in to build a program in Rome that was themed around environmental tech. And day-to-day , I actually am at the university of Southern California.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years. Patient capital.

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LEAN Company Underperforming Technical Team Project 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Ultimately, most of Uber’s technical advances were ideas that competitors would have devised in short order. The company’s phalanx of attorneys brought arguments perfected from prior disputes, whereas each jurisdiction approached Uber independently and from a blank slate, usually with a modest litigation team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Welcome to the Innovation Metrics podcast, where we bring you the latest on innovation management, we provide insights on how to measure innovation, innovation accounting, and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable, and profitable business models. That’s a that is a big part of what you’re doing as well, no.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2014

In truth, Sutton says, "a well-managed hierarchy is among the most effective weapons for getting rid of the friction, incompetence, and politics that plague bad organizations." Chen says "booth babes" intimidate men, are "lazy," are generally ignored by business and product execs who just need to get work done, and develop low-quality leads.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Big companies obsessively ask that question, because their approach to new ideas is that there are good ones than can be developed into revenue generators, and bad ones that should be abandoned as quickly as possible so as not to waste resources. Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The correction for tech companies appears to be well underway. In my view, a down economy is the best time to build a sales team. My role was to scale the sales team. As an executive team, we were rattled. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. So far this year, the stock market has been anything but stable.

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