Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

It was one of the world’s highest-grossing IPOs in a year when the market was otherwise in chaos due to the mortgage lending crisis. In 2010, in India, the microfinance institution SKS also went through an IPO that generated millions in profits — along with an impressive amount of scandal and intrigue.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

Quinn 10

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our most recent report with data on over 2,000 ventures from 42 accelerator programs, shows that across country settings, accelerated ventures grow at significantly higher rates compared to ventures that applied but were not accepted into the accelerator program. Related Video. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

Companies were required to certify their financial statements, follow new rules in reporting pro-forma earnings and off-balance sheet transactions, and issue voluminous reports on their internal financial controls. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was the last big attempt to improve financial disclosure.

IPO 11

IPO Conflict of Interest Information Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Startups alone won’t fill that vacuum: Stewards must emerge from the old guard of financial services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? And early reports from the architects of these newer algorithms caution how long it takes to thoughtfully incorporate new metrics into the models. In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

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. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

So Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at Stanford’s GSB, and Arthur Korteweg of USC’s Marshall School of Business devised an experiment to identify what characteristics do distinguish startups.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

IPO 10

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

Sixty-four percent of all publicly traded firms are incorporated in Delaware , and 90% of IPOs happen there — so even under the new ruling, Delaware is a viable, and seemingly favorable, site for nonpracticing entity litigation. The bottom line: Reports that TC Heartland will kill patent trolling have been greatly exaggerated.

IPO 8

IPO Incentives Proposal Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014. That’s just 2.1%

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Brookings reports that cleantech VC funding has declined not just in terms of deals and dollars, but as a share of overall VC activity. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. And in HBR back in 2008, Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor reported that on balance activism only paid off when the target firm was acquired.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

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. A ccording to a McKinsey report , if Europe boosted its immigration from outside Europe, from 2.6

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8