Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

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. Our research suggests that in certain industries—where breakthrough innovation is critical for growth—they should.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? But times change.

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community — Initial Coin Offerings , or ICOs. How technology is transforming transactions. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Plus, I argued, other clean energy industry measures like clean energy M&A, job growth, and deployment were trending in the right direction. ” Perhaps that’s because VCs got distracted by the siren song of social media companies, especially after Facebook’s incredibly successful 2012 IPO. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. With foreign technology companies doing mostly of the trading in Africa, combined with a porous IPR system in the region, tech startups have limited opportunities for acquisition. But for entrepreneurs in developing nations, especially Africa, the exit strategy can be a challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Couple this with the fact that Singer has in recent years been one of the biggest donors to the Republican Party , and you could, if you were so inclined, craft an outrage-inducing tale of a heartless right-wing financier sticking it to the workers and hollowing out America’s high-tech industry. Finance Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. LPs have created and perpetuate an industry of such structural economic misalignment that VCs can underperform and not only survive, but thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. Address your audience’s concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position. A major reason for this deficit is insufficient investment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

helped to create the nation’s tech industry. ( In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 “The big idea is to think as a potential industry leader rather than a one-product company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Rather, I am an academic economist who, through in-depth studies of high-tech companies and industries, has come to the conclusion that stock buybacks are eroding the foundations of economic prosperity in the United States. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

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