Mike Cardus

APRIL 14, 2011

Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable. The notion that some types of roles (sales, research, finance, etc.) List is from Elliot Jaques “Social Power & the CEO” 2002. Why do you work?

System 157

System Commitment Motivation Incentives 157

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 382

Media Blog Tools Influence 382

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

AUGUST 12, 2013

That''s the finding of a big new study by Harvard''s Lucian Bebchuk, Duke''s Alon Brav, and Columbia''s Wei Jiang , which shows that companies targeted by activist hedge funds as undervalued markedly improve their operating performance in the subsequent five years. Boards Competition Finance'

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

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. Operational Statistics. Every day in the U.S.,

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8