Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. While a SaaS announcement on average neither decreases nor increases company value, we find big differences depending on the specifics of what’s announced. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. 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.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel. Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” While 6% of the wine sold at Systembolaget in 2011 was organic, by 2016 it was over 20%. What changed?

Organization 9

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Core r epositioning.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable. Success has so far been marginal.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8