Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. It was just weeks until Zuckerberg's addictive platform won me over.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9