Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit. By contrast, of 5,000 businesses started in 2004, almost 56% were still in business in 2010, despite suffering through a brutal economic downturn. Not everyone is suited to join a new company.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But why do we get so grumpy when companies say thank you? Two years ago, Chrysler ran full-page ads with the headline: "Thank You for Investing in Chrysler — America's Car Company" to express its gratitude for the U.S. Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising Brand Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Your company has just developed an amazing new product. But it falls apart at the seams at the last moment, leaving your company on the brink of disaster. Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. Somewhat astonishingly, Google's offer was spurned and the company set its sights on going public.

Business Model 15

Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. Previously, he launched Hulu.com from inside of NBC, and was on the founding team of MLB Advanced Media, the five billion dollar digital media company collectively owned by the Major League Baseball team owners.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

(And because of the increase in entrepreneurial activity, there are also more companies chasing those dollars in secondary markets around the country). Tech companies see engineers move to and fro frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. and other national regulators to extract even more by way of fines and other penalties from the company. Take the case of BP.

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

As one Rio-based entrepreneur told me, "I got to nine people, took one look at the huge regulatory stair that I would have to climb to get to ten, and went back to opening up additional small companies instead of growing one big one. For example, in France it is twice as likely to find a 49-person company as a 50-person company.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 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. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. While select companies have seen the light, as a group the Fortune 500 remains too risk averse to satisfy the economy's need for innovation.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

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 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. I asked the CEO, whom I’ll call Mike, about the secret of his company’s rapid growth. Several years ago I sat down with the CEO of a fast-growing retail business. His answer blew me away.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reported that their sales were $59 million in 2010 and rose 40% in the first half of 2011, with the company reportedly heading toward an IPO in the near future. Second, Angie's List has multiple sources of revenue to draw upon, including advertising revenue from highly rated providers.

Business Model 11

Business Model IPO Review Report 11

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

In 2004, Etienne helped start health care IT Accretive Health (now R1 RCM), growing it from the proverbial “blank sheet of paper” to a 2010 IPO valuing the company at $1.2 An active angel investor and start-up advisor, he serves on boards in aerospace, automotive, construction, energy, food, and health care.

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Cost Health Care IPO Automotive 172

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Those are two of the findings from Meaningful Brands , a little study we do at my Lab. Which is akin to the state of play of "social media".

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

But there’s still a lot we don’t know about what actually happens at a company level when members of Congress own stock. Some companies have closer to 100 members holding stock, and many firms have 50 or more in a given year. Not only did his wife invest between $610,000 and $1.5 Our research attempts to address this.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards. Instead, it operates more like GE.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. This dismal performance points to a glaring – and growing — digital gap as Europeans watch the U.S. and China take the lead in tech innovation. position. billion in 2014.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8