Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. If companies are incurring these costs unnecessarily they are destroying value.

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Sometimes big companies engage in transactions that make you wonder what on earth they were thinking. Hewlett-Packard's 2011 acquisition of the British software company Autonomy certainly falls in that category. And last fall HP wrote down the value of the acquired company by $8.8

Finance 8

Finance Due Diligence Drucker Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.

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Due Diligence Real Estate Management Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. Some of it vanished when companies failed during those recessions. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you’re not turning your company into a “math house” you’re headed for serious trouble. Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Insight Center.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The pugilist-presenter was David Roodman, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of a new book, Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance. Billed as the "most complete investigation ever into the consequences of microfinance," Roodman's findings aren't pretty.

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Microfinance Due Diligence Cost-Benefit Analysis Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But as we have suggested elsewhere, activists are here to stay , and are increasingly prominent players on the equity landscape—sometimes even inside the company boardroom. More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Because he didn't have any capital, and therefore no leverage, his initial equity stake was small, such that even as the company's valuation increased in subsequent financing rounds, he suffered massive dilution. But the company needs to reach profitability quickly. Start a business, yes. Be discovery-driven, yes.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

However, much of the criminal activity is now being mitigated by self-organized, crowdsourced due diligence in the community , as well as by external parties such as Smith and Crown , a research group focused on cryptofinance, and ICO Rating , a ratings agency that issues independent analytical research on blockchain-based companies.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. Our work started casually at a lunch we had in 2011 with Doug Nieters and Stephen Paine, two other members of Credit Suisse’s Open Network, our firm’s professional network for LGBT employees. Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence.

Policies 15

Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. Our work started casually at a lunch we had in 2011 with Doug Nieters and Stephen Paine, two other members of Credit Suisse’s Open Network, our firm’s professional network for LGBT employees. Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence.

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Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 8