Finance Globalization Innovation IPO 
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 25, 2022
For much of the last few years, startups have been able to get by on an ample supply of venture capital finance, with self-sufficiency scarcely warranting a mention. After a bumper year in 2021, just 305 flotations were achieved globally during the second quarter of 2022, which represents a fall of around 54% on the same period in 2021.
N2Growth Blog
MAY 3, 2021
Darrin had spent the last decade reinventing this sleepy bank—revamping the bank’s finances, providing liquidity to investors, raining new capital, and doubling down on operational efficiencies—and turning the organization into a regional bank that people truly admired.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2017
Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. Distributed Database.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. Yet it does not have a single representative on Interbrand’s list of the top 100 global brands. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2012
When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me. Take Brazil.
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