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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

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. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) There is actually a simple cure for this Buzzword Bingo.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Blinded by Facebook

Harvard Business Review

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. In 2010, Greenpeace spent 10 million euros on investigations, more than many "major" news organizations.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco.

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The Problem with Groupon's Business Model

Harvard Business Review

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. The smart money went along, with Groupon valued at $15-20 billion, according to some observers anticipating rich pickings in the IPO-to-come. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 But not so fast.