Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc’s top team remained confident because they knew the company was strong in three critical areas: The ability to predict the market. BlueArc’s new product hit the market and was an instant success. Forecasting acumen.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. Even successful Internet companies like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba are closely held and most of the gains from their IPOs went to the top managers.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign. Now within the timeline, marketers can see reach data for each post.

Advertising 15

Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. One of Ford's much touted successes on Facebook was its introduction of the 2011 Ford Explorer via its "Reveal" campaign. Now within the timeline, marketers can see reach data for each post.

Advertising 13

Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. 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

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2% that aggregate sales in the U.S.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble.

IPO 9

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

That may just be because some of the partnership ethos lived on nine years after the IPO, meaning that the firm is unlikely to do so well in the next financial crisis. In 2011 — a bad year for trading — investment banking generated just $4.6 But it feels like the end of the partnership can't be the whole answer.

Hedge 13

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. ” 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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. In 2011, cleantech represented nearly 17% of total U.S.

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

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

Price IPO Content Marketing 101