The Horizons Tracker
MAY 2, 2022
” Of course, such detachment from reality has been shown to have dire consequences, with famous cases such as WeWork and Theranos demonstrating the point. The researchers argue that success requires entrepreneurs to have a diverse set of skills, so they focused their attention on entrepreneurial, technical, and managerial expertise.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
It had appeared in a special online supplement of Businessweek on the subject of diversity, and it concerned the company's efforts to increase female and minority representation in management. Charles Begley, GlobeBank's managing director of diversity recruiting, was already reading it onscreen, dumbfounded. "We Who wrote that?". "He
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 24, 2017
Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Of course, the journey isn’t over.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2016
Of course, anyone who really knows the history of platforms may recall the many that aspired to make gobs of money but never did and quickly died (think of the many B2B exchanges that never made it to the other side of dot-com bust). Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
But Ellison is of course chairman of that board (long-time chairman Jeff Henley will stay on as vice chairman). And of the remarkable tech IPO class of 1986, which included Adobe, EMC, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, Oracle has been the best performer. One size does not fit all.
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