Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

That’s one of the great secrets to the success of AB InBev, the world’s largest beer company. “Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. “It is big.”

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. In a country where owning an apartment is a symbol of success, the ratio of real estate price to annual income is among the highest in the world.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

As the book’s title suggests, the people I talked to ended up becoming CEOs of successful companies: one became chief executive of a publicly-listed company, Infosys; another of a large private company, The Weather Company; and a third of a successful startup, Plumbee. billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation.

Crisis 8

Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent. Once in a while, after a great success, share profits.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. The fact is, highly capable people are often driven to success standards that are extrinsically measured — e.g. they provide external credentialization — but have little in common with what they truly wanted to accomplish.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? “But I have never had trouble with senior management,” she said. Perhaps so.

Gilbert 130

Gilbert Public Relations IPO Handbook 130

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

As they were catching up, his old classmate told him how he'd achieved financial success, even national recognition. I've come to think of this as Murray's Law of Personal Success. Do you define your own standards of career excellence? Do you define your own standards of career excellence? Let's break it down.

Succession 15

Succession IPO Comparison Career 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. The three other CEO success stories, however, more clearly did not involve breakthrough innovation. The other CEOs in our sample didn’t directly oversee breakthrough innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. In 2010 I spent an afternoon with one of CEO Mike’s highest-performing store managers, a person I will call Ethan.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8