Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." This simple strategy proved wildly successful. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

Rivkin 14

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It was basically an open-source enterprise, and seemed to owe most of its remarkable success to that openness. Of course, that “success” didn’t come with a lot of revenue. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. It’s just a company, trying to make some money.

Marketing 8

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. ” I believe celebrating success is critical, but it’s important to make it personal and authentic.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

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IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. Is there a market opportunity the company is overlooking? ” says Sheen. The price tag?

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. It’s about multiples of revenue or earnings, sales growth, profit margins, and management theory. Strategic, not financial, value is what drives most successful outcomes. It’s about the ability to grow and prosper as an independent company.

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Price IPO Wilde Examples 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Their ongoing success pushes incumbents to alternately revisit core business assumptions and seek regulatory relief. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Successful platforms empower their users.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. That’s one of the great secrets to the success of AB InBev, the world’s largest beer company. We soon figured out why. “It is big.”

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, a co-founder of the India-based Infosys, saw his company’s market value on NASDAQ drop 90% from 2000 to 2001. Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images.

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Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO. Their products are early stage, which means daily frustrations as they run through successive iterations. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 9

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. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Set your company up for success. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

While IBM can do that, I will prefer readily available local talents for cost and locally supported organic succession. 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. Education drives technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Fast forward four years and LinkedIn is a public company with a market cap of more than $9 billion and revenues of about $400 million. LinkedIn didn't create the very quiet tech market it was born into, but it definitely benefited from it. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. It stuck with its target market.

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IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Raising venture capital isn’t the be all and end all of entrepreneurial success.

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IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. Blue Arc’s R&D had a track record of success; it was a proven team. Its growth had been derailed.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential. Peer relationships.

Career 14

Career CFO Sample Execution 14

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. In a country where owning an apartment is a symbol of success, the ratio of real estate price to annual income is among the highest in the world.

Engineering 8

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

I hope Cook doesn’t listen, because I think it would be bad for Apple, all of its employees who have contributed to its success, and the American economy. The bank then does the actual repurchases on the open market over time (in the case of Apple, nine months for the first $2 billion ASR and 12 months for each of two later $12 billion ASRs).

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Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. What do you do next?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Few things are more damaging to a brand’s reputation than a hack in the headlines, and in the event of a public security incident, it’s highly likely that the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) will be the first people the CEO looks to and says “What do we do now?”

Planning 8

Planning Company Crisis Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 13

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. He invested in training his staff, but that backfired as those individuals then became more marketable and moved on. Once in a while, after a great success, share profits.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

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. He says, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Every communication experience is an opportunity to influence. .

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Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. But the company had almost failed several times, and even success was brutal. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Big acquirers cash out founders, management teams get folded into big organizations, cashflows disappoint, and visions flounder. There has to be a better way.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 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. Finally, corporate VCs are unable to pitch the promise of a self-fulfilling prophecy the way successful private VCs can. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

Banking 10

Banking Strategy Film Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8