Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. By the mid 2000s MasterCard and Visa were handling trillions of dollars of transactions between consumers and merchants around the world.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. Baldino moved aggressively to bring Provigil to market. Baldino sought to convince thought leaders of the therapeutic benefit, prove the drug worked, and then market it to the needy community. By 2010, sales exceeded $2B.

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Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

According to SEC filings, in 1998, the year before it went public, Goldman Sachs was leveraged at nearly 32-to-1, while in 2006 it was leveraged at 22-to-1. Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership. Other Wall Street firms have experienced similar leverage increases and decreases.

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Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution.

Price 101

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