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. Click on the table below to see at full size.).

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

billion; of the 37 globally, nearly half fail to clear the bar. times sales, estimates University of Florida professor Jay Ritter, who tracks IPOs. Shares of this year’s tech IPOs have risen an average of 26% on their first day of trading. A dollar in 2000 is the equivalent of $1.35 This adjustment makes a big difference.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Comparison Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Depending on who you talk to about microfinance, it is either the solution to global poverty and deserves to be included in the basic list of human rights, or it’s a complete rip-off of the global poor that only serves to concentrate more resources in the hands of the wealthy.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Of the 400 top global universities, only three are in Africa. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

Rather than rehashing these points, I want to take a broader perspective and use the Uber-Didi deal to reflect more broadly on platform companies and globalization. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies? And misconceptions in this regard are not new.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

The story reignited a decades-old debate: Will Mandarin overtake English as the global language? Their data are illustrated in “ The Global Language Network ,” an interactive model they produced showing English to be the largest hub of information. Global estimates figure more than 1.5

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The heady winds of Facebook's IPO have left in their wake gnawing questions about the durability of the social network behemoth's brand, as critics point to declining revenue growth and a less-than-spectacular earnings outlook. But the troubled IPO should direct attention to more fundamental elements of the company's strategy.

IPO 12

IPO PR Brand Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Investing in linked ventures simultaneously can get VCs in and out more quickly, at a time when global markets are not highly liquid and IPOs are delayed for long periods. Prescient VCs may make global investments in low-cost, high-volume specialty hospitals to complement their R&D start-ups.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

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

DECEMBER 30, 2014

A Gartner survey of almost 500 executives at global corporations revealed that growth is this year’s top priority. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. Verghese and his team believed that they could differentiate the company to global customers like Nestlé by focusing on the end-to-end supply chain, with the goal of managing the whole thing themselves.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

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. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. Instead, their business journeys originated in a different place, a place we call the Heart. So don't worry too much about a business plan.

Planning 20

Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

The happiest folks out there are probably GE Healthcare’s two big global competitors, Philips and Siemens Healthineers. But equally likely, I suspect, this will just be the starting point for another spate of MA&D masquerading as strategy.

TSR 10

TSR Company IPO Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Another week, another potentially destabilizing global mini-crisis. This time, it's (yet another) global food crisis: food prices are set to skyrocket and the FAO's food price index is already spiking. Should we raise interest rates so there's less hot money sloshing around to fuel the bubble, bringing down food prices?

Globalization 15

Globalization IPO Decentralization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

And don't forget the World Economic Forum's posse of Young Global Leaders. If you haven't been invited to the White House or launched an IPO or made the cover of a national newsmagazine before age 35, there's absolutely no reason to believe you can't still accomplish those goals later in life. What, you didn't make the cut?

IPO 14

IPO Creativity Comparison Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. On the Friday before one of my key hires, with an impressive background from a top global technology company, was scheduled to start work, I got a nervous sounding call from him. One candidate told me that he expected "a seven-figure package" (in US dollars).

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Meanwhile, Dr. Piech was obsessed with achieving dominant global market share, which included a larger presence in the U.S. (Volkswagen group profits come largely from the sales of Porsche and Audi, the large bulk of other sales being not that profitable.)

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

Truth be told, the column makes him sound like a bit of a curmudgeon, the skunk at balloon-filled graduation parties celebrating the sense of possibility and the spirit of freedom that defines life for young people who have come of age in a world of instant communications, global connectivity, and dotcom millionaires.

IPO 16

IPO Wilde Brand CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

entrepreneurs, just over $50,000) they typically seek more modest amounts of outside investment and are not typically working towards an acquisition or IPO. In addition, while they are seeking to grow their businesses (and are investing as much of their own money on average as U.S. Related Video. Think about consumers' jobs-to-be-done.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And to succeed in today’s ever-changing, tech-enabled, global business climate, all leaders need to know how to influence. It means being an excellent communicator in every facet of business life, from short rides on the elevator to IPO roadshows, from team meetings to industry events, and everything in between.

Decentralization 81

Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. That seems like a good bet; since the IPO, Facebook's share price has fallen meaningfully. Take the steel industry.

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

It was the CEO''s incredible persistence (and experience) in all aspects of selling — sales organization, compensation, pipeline management, and selling skills — that not only saved Voltaire from oblivion, but eventually propelled it to a NASDAQ IPO. Entrepreneurship Global business Small/medium business'

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

The combined global workforces of Groupon , Facebook , LinkedIn , Zynga , Yelp , Pandora , and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated. (Hey, it could be worse: the computer and electronics hardware industry has shed 750,000 jobs since the turn of the 21 st century.). since 2000.

Development 9

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. We will be closely monitoring the social graph for the feedback. That will probably be the tipping point for us.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. In fact, one could argue that the unicorn surge over the past five years is largely the result of a once-in-a-lifetime event: the emergence of that globally ubiquitous communication platform, the smartphone.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. Barclays Global Investors hired an industry outsider to pioneer its Exchange Traded Funds, iShares , and gave him the freedom to build a new business oriented around Main Street customers.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

And then many other companies that have IPO’d in the last decade, like Visa, which connects cardholders and merchants, and Facebook, which connects friends, advertisers, and developers. Airbnb, which seems to have come out of nowhere, is challenging the global hotel industry. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

Participative 8

Participative Business Model IPO B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But since its spluttering IPO last year, I''ve been coming around to the notion that Facebook is headed for a status more interesting than either flash-in-the-pan or all-conquering global behemoth.

Strategy 8

Strategy IPO Early Adopters COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. The tools used by Silicon Valley, London, and Paris to hire top talent — namely stock options — seldom work in Africa.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Custom manufacturers enable innovators to see their designs fabricated without their having to create a factory (and soon, "fab labs" will distribute manufacturing capabilities to a more granular, global community of makers). But we also bet it isn't your usual perspective on the world of VCs and IPO lawyers. You get this.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, IMCD, now a global leader in specialty chemicals distribution, made some forty acquisitions and quintupled its revenues since its carve-out from IM twenty years ago, while having been owned by three different private equity investors prior to its IPO in 2014.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 The first challenge to making the startup unit successful was to become known in the global startup community and to connect fast with promising startups. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. We started with focus groups drawn from both our graduate class at Northwestern University and a global high-potential program we run at Aon. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8