Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures.

Media 325

Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth. Compensation Economy Finance' Sometimes governments actually use the money they borrow wisely. Then there are the other tradeoffs inherent in investment returns.

Bond 8

Bond Finance Hedge Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So were the currency and debt crises of 1997 and 1998, and the stock market collapse of 2000-2002. The conviction spread that, thanks in part to financial innovation, the world's developed economies had become more resilient even as financial markets became more volatile. So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002).

Decisionmaking 15

Decisionmaking Chaos Theory Hedge Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

He started developing his famous case against bond insurer MBIA in 2002, and had to wait till 2009 for it to pay off. Boards Competition Finance' Ackman is no Warren Buffett, who holds on to companies for decades, but he''s not obsessing over day-to-day market moves or quarterly earnings reports, either.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

How To 8

How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. There were inventors — people were developing fundamental ideas in physics and chemistry. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. Should we support generally moderate candidates who can compromise on major structural issues facing the U.S.,

Company 13

Company Politics Policies Proposal 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. 61% of those students did nothing about it.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection.

Blog 329

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 329

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

Long-term 12

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12