Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail). A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.
The Idolbuster
JANUARY 25, 2013
It’s like climbing a mountain quickly to reach the top, only realizing when you get there that there’s more to climb and that you didn’t get a chance to enjoy the views earlier (and now won’t have the energy to do so!). For example, engage with people you care about to relax. Find friends or family (or a Health Coach!)
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Skip Prichard
JULY 22, 2019
For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Most of them, for example, consider unemployment and national budget deficits to be outside their purview. Not surprisingly, with the price of oil dropping, directors of companies the energy & utilities industries are particularly discouraged. Across industries, the sense of economic uncertainty is also remarkably consistent.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2012
Many techno-optimists base their thinking on a famous 1990 paper by economic historian Paul David , which described how, for decades, electricity had little effect on industrial productivity as manufacturers simply swapped out older energy sources for electric power but changed nothing about how they made things.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. While this story is not new, it represents the perfect example of a phenomenal corporate turnaround and the skills required to engineer such a recovery. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 3, 2013
For example, if we look at P&G''s industry, Consumer Staples, we see that 44% of boards said they had not vetted at least one viable candidate for the CEO job and more than 1/3 (36%) said CEO succession was not discussed regularly at the board level (meaning not even once per year). But that''s not the case.
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