BUSINESS NEWS AND FUNDING

Is this the time for corporate VC funds to run dry? Hardly, says Harvard Business School professor Henry W. Chesbrough. You just need to understand the big picture, as do Microsoft, Intel, and Merck. by…

Imagine your ideal employee. What is he or she like? Someone who comes in early and leaves late? Someone you can bank on putting forth 100 percent-plus effort? By Anne Wolfinger – 03/24/02 The Independent…

You can learn a lot from your competition. By analyzing your competitors, you can anticipate new opportunities and developments in your market, make better operations decisions and more effectively evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses….

Just when the worst of the startup attrition appeared to be over, a new study portends further casualties among today’s survivors. by Vyvyan Tenorio The Deal.com If venture financing continues to be constrained as it…

When Michael Dell was a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, he raised a little cash by selling computer clones from his off-campus apartment. Business was so good, he didn’t bother registering…

Early in my career, I knew a manager who had a particularly cold-blooded way of firing employees. He never told them directly. Instead, he would wait until they had left the office for lunch and…

The course should be called ”Innovation,” but because it’s MIT the official title is more technical: ”Generation of New Product and Service Concepts.” By D.C. Denison, 3/17/2002 Boston Globe It’s a core topic at MIT,…

For many companies today, the value of their intellectual property exceeds the total value of all other tangible assets. by Gary Williams – Brigham Young University Intellectual property (IP) includes patents, copyrights, trade secrets and…