Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Similarly, some people move from technical to managerial positions in order to advance in their careers. Those jobs often demand less technical knowledge but can offer more pay, more responsibilities, and chances to develop new skills. These results have important implications for managers and policy makers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

RippleWorks, a private foundation that supports emerging market entrepreneurs by providing them with leading Silicon Valley executives as advisors, asked those questions in a recent survey of 628 social entrepreneurs from all over the world. What do these enterprises need to scale up? And how can they do it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2011

But, for me, the management takeaway is that since we all see selectively but we don't all select the same things, we can leverage the different ways we slice and dice the world. I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

People form opinions pretty quickly, and these opinions tend to be sticky,” says Michael Watkins, the cofounder of Genesis Advisers and author of the updated The First 90 Days. “If Many managers inherit their teams, which often means they aren’t creating new goals, but clarifying existing ones. The first few weeks are critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The small size of unicorns allows the top management teams to be directly and deeply involved in most of the strategic decisions, which are then implemented through a flat organization. This is makes it easier to take decisions and put them into practice very swiftly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Writing in response to the publication that year of IDEO cofounder David Kelley’s The Art of Innovation , Schrage argues that IDEO’s ability to innovate lies not so much in the methodologies of brainstorming, hot teams, and rapid prototyping that Kelley describes but in its culture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

To date, 19 CEOs of S&P 500 companies — such as Becton Dickinson, AETNA, 3M, PG&E, and Unilever — have presented their plans to institutional investors representing in excess of $25 trillion in assets under management. The expectations for an effective long-term plan are described in SII’s Investor Letter to CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically." Most recently he left Facebook and joined with Enrique Allen to cofound The Designer Fund. Ben told me, "I knew Mark was going to build the company with or without me, and once I met the design team, I was just blown away. And so, he decided to join in the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Although female-founded companies represent a greater percentage of First Round’s investments than the national average — startups with at least one female cofounder account for approximately 18% of new VC-backed new ventures in the U.S. — they were still the minority of investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. Working in the family business can be fraught.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Managers who can’t seem to pick a course of action — or who constantly change their minds – can be maddening. If your manager isn’t willing to steer, is it OK for you to take the driver’s seat? Ask yourself if “there might be a method to your manager’s madness. ” Rothbard agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem that Etosha and her cofounders ran into when they first sought to leverage the Silicon Valley ecosystem to get their business off the ground was that venture investors typically want to see a real product. Soon after, she and her technical cofounder also received a grant from Cyclotron Road.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

And, finally, researchers in Germany have created ForgetIT, software that looks for "unimportant content" to set aside, condense, or delete — what they call "managed forgetting," in which the software learns what a user deems important. Conflict Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Long before its current crises , tech gained a reputation for elitism, ” brogrammer “ culture, and an overrepresentation of white and East Asian men (albeit with mostly white ones in management.) And there are other models worth exploring to improve racial inclusion in high-tech entrepreneurship and within the tech industry.

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