Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. That''s the question Michael Dell has been asking himself since 2007, when he retook the top job at the computer company he founded in 1984. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits. But by jumping on the buyback bandwagon — something Steve Jobs refused to do — Apple’s current top management has shown the same lack of strategic vision that has undermined many once-great American companies, including Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola. corporate taxation.

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Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Consider the value of Facebook as both a private and public company, as chronicled recently by the Wall Street Journal. In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 By May 2009, the company was being valued at $10 billion. valuation) in favor of trend extrapolation?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me. Take Brazil.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

In 2004, Etienne helped start health care IT Accretive Health (now R1 RCM), growing it from the proverbial “blank sheet of paper” to a 2010 IPO valuing the company at $1.2 An active angel investor and start-up advisor, he serves on boards in aerospace, automotive, construction, energy, food, and health care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

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