Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

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.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. election?

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. And How Does It Affect Your Company?). MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they’ve delivered and the incredibly large and valuable companies that their ecosystem has created. In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. The stake you keep is small — and tends to get smaller.

Venture Funding 11

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Incubator Advice 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. Set your company up for success. Insight Center.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Unlike at commercial companies, there was no senior leader who could mandate changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Oddly enough, the movie was financed by a food company or it would possibly never have been made at all, and in a way it’s one of the more creative marketing campaigns ever seeing as I can go to any candy store and buy Wonka candy right now.

Leadership 283

Leadership Idea Generation Open-book BHAG 283

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The quickening pace extends to firms’ lifespan; we found that companies’ lifespans decreased substantially in each new decade of listing from the 1960s. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9