Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. General partners of private funds extract large management fees, but it takes a minimum of six years to evaluate their performance.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. This simple strategy proved wildly successful.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2013
—Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. But a new study by researchers at the Munich School of Management and Copenhagen Business School found that worldwide box office receipts for all but the biggest films actually declined. No surprise there.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2015
For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. Railway systems are near capacity. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Highways can’t keep up with demand.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2013
Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2011
The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes.
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