Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion. But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

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. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass? WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart. The company has piles of money — $3.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

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