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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. After they met, she became so interested that she asked Darrin for permission to write a full-blown Harvard case study on Southern Bancorp. .

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. Business in the age of Google.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. This scene was what she'd envisioned when she quit her job as an occupational therapist five years before, to enroll in a health care management course and, later, business school.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business Review

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. Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Case Study: Blue Apron.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. Instead, it operates more like GE. And it sets strategy like one, according to a Harvard Business School case study by professor Julie Wulf. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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