Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 14

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. But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. Call 2014 the year of innovation. Staying power is vital for innovation.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

But for a business that is struggling with growth and/or profitability, MA&D is not going to be of assistance if it distracts management’s time from fixing the core customer value equation problem — and it almost inevitably distracts.

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

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

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011.

Engineering 8

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 8

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

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. Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years.

Decentralization 81

Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

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. One of the more complicated issues accelerators need to manage may be investors’ implicit bias. Related Video. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

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. A final example comes from the domain of career management.

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

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

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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 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 13

Banking Strategy Film Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. You get this. We know you get this.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

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. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent. Entrepreneurship Talent management Employee retention Africa'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. It is hell to manage.". Not" is not a typo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 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. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. All these leaders demonstrated the essentials of classic strategic management.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

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 This is a business.

Case Study 8

Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

” But achieving decentralization requires a meaningful investment in capital in order to attract a distributed network of users and network managers that maintain the decentralized ledgers (or nodes). As Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin notes , “Once you adopt a richer economic model…decentralization becomes more important.”

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. The Internet has the necessary infrastructure and achieved the global ubiquity to be able to reimagine and disrupt nearly every industry in the world. No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. The Internet has the necessary infrastructure and achieved the global ubiquity to be able to reimagine and disrupt nearly every industry in the world. No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 16

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? “But I have never had trouble with senior management,” she said. Anyone can take a dive.

Gilbert 130

Gilbert Public Relations IPO Handbook 130

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.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed. Do we face a global storm of malaria? Managing yourself'

Power 9

Power IPO Retail Wilde 9

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. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. tax jurisdiction.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. The combination of globalization forces and outsized CEO pay packages. Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. The increased role of finance in our economy.

Cost 172

Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That the job of managers isn't just to "deliver product" — but to impact lives. I'd say: yesterday's social media superstars turned out to be a little like today's meggings: fashionable mistakes many would rather pretend didn't really happen. Here's what I do mean. That institutions focus on outcomes, not just outputs.

Media 8

Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services.

Innovation 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Today, Huawei is the only Chinese company – out of the 91 mainland Chinese companies listed on the Fortune Global 500 list – earning more revenue abroad than in China. There’s a shared belief within the company that an IPO would result in only a few people getting very rich, and the majority losing their motivation.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8