Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Between 20% and 40% of founders do not remain in their original role ( according to several academic estimates ), typically replaced by a more-seasoned executive who might seem better positioned to scale the company and prepare it for the acquisition or IPO market. This data lets us see when founders are replaced.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Policies Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs).

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Despite secondary-school enrollment increasing by 48% from 2000 to 2008 , access to university education remains severely limited. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Even at three times the U.S.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. And in short order, the company achieved consistent double-digit sales growth — and a successful IPO. The price tag?

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

For founders thinking about launching companies outside of New York, Massachusetts, or California, that means your odds of pre-IPO success are automatically lower before you’ve even started. But the simple truth is that by every metric surrounding follow-on funding, acquisition, or IPO, the superhubs still have a distinct edge.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

That seems like a good bet; since the IPO, Facebook's share price has fallen meaningfully. Before 2008, annual pay increases of 25% were commonplace (he says they averaged 18% per year). By the time Facebook went public last May, the number had surged to more than $100 billion. valuation) in favor of trend extrapolation?

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

This was to a certain extent what hit Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns in 2008. From the evidence of the IPO prospectus it filed last week, Groupon is playing this speculative finance game (it lost $456 million last year, and has $118 million cash in the bank). But the better example is that of the dot-coms.

Company 14

Company Finance Price IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed.

Power 10

Power IPO Retail Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

In early 2013, Norwegian went public and became one of the most successful IPOs of the year, closing the year 87% above its IPO price. From 2008 through 2013, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) margins increased for 20 consecutive quarters, from 5% to 25%.

Company 10

Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Then came October of 2008, the worst financial meltdown in decades. Seven years after that infamous day in 2008, we are a post-IPO company with a market cap of over $1 billion dollars. Looking back, the 2008 economic downturn may have helped us more than it hurt us. Life was good. As an executive team, we were rattled.

Crisis 8

Crisis IPO Marketing Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In politics, the central question you face in devising your campaign strategy is whether you're running as a challenger (a role Obama played to perfection in 2008, promising "hope" and "change") or an incumbent, which is a marvelous position if the country is thriving, and a terrible one if it isn't.

Planning 8

Planning IPO Politics Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. The Economist dubbed Block 71, “the world’s most tightly packed entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

VC funding for cleantech went down during the recession, but as a share of total VC funding it held steady at 15-17% from 2008 to 2011. ” Perhaps that’s because VCs got distracted by the siren song of social media companies, especially after Facebook’s incredibly successful 2012 IPO. Today, I am less optimistic.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. And in HBR back in 2008, Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor reported that on balance activism only paid off when the target firm was acquired.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

For example, the financial institutions in which key committee members owned stock received favorable bailouts in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act , in 2008. Second, we show firms are taking note of congressional investments in a couple of ways.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Fifteen European countries have been losing momentum since 2008 in terms of their state of digital evolution – this is what we mean by a digital recession – with the Netherlands coming in dead last in our momentum rankings. European countries occupy the nine bottom spots in our list of 50. billion in 2014.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8