Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. When all employees and stakeholders use the sustainability lens to make decisions, a new business model takes root.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. But while machine learning has many applications, it is just one of many AI-related technologies capable of solving business problems.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Khosrowshahi must demonstrate how Uber’s repeatable business model generates profitable growth.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Traditional banks — with their monolithic business models and hefty fees — have been unable to crack this lucrative market.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

It’s nonsensical to blame people for “poor choices” or a lack of financial literacy when their volatile economic circumstances would challenge the skills of a finance MBA. The Federal Reserve found that in 2016, 44% of American households didn’t have $400 in emergency savings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? These questions will clearly take a lot more research than this article. But the following stories suggest further exploration is warranted.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 ’ ” The losers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Now, as we begin to scale our care-delivery model to multiple new geographies, we’d like to share what more we’ve learned from our experiences in the two initial markets — lessons we think are applicable to other populations as well.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere. reduction in a single year. Studies show that women have lower access to capital, for example.

Banking 8

Banking Entrepreneur Finance Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

ICOs present both benefits and disadvantages, as well as threats and opportunities, to the traditional venture capital business model. One is profits — cryptocurrency investors made some massive returns in 2016, with cryptocurrencies from Blockchain startups Monero and NEM both seeing 2,000% increases in value.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The subscription business model is booming. Business-to-consumer subscription businesses have attracted more than 11 million U.S. Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

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IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The rate of technological innovation, data analysis, and interconnectivity are pioneering new business models, security breakthroughs, and consumer convenience at a dizzying pace. business payees preferred instant or one-hour payment speed compared to longer delays. This method, however, is no longer sustainable.

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System Industry Report Banking 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Of course this depends on a company’s business model. To go back to the question that opened this article, I hope it’s clear that the product is only half the battle. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In 2016 blockchain companies raised $400 million from traditional venture investors and nearly $200 million through what we call initial coin offerings (ICO rather than IPO). As with any radically new business model, ICOs have risks. This new funding mechanism is already transforming the blockchain industry.

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