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Preview Thursday: Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose

Lead Change Blog

I spent almost 30 years as a lawyer in private practice, advising business leaders on Delaware corporate law issues – addressing matters like preferred stock financings, IPOs, mergers, hostile takeovers, proxy contests, corporate governance and fiduciary issues. But then something happened to change my view of the shareholder primacy model.

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How to source funds to expand your business

Strategy Driven

But sometimes, due to the lack of financial literacy or good financial advice, you may end up making the wrong choice. The goal is to gain equity, help the company grow and then sell it or when it goes very well, do an IPO. You will need to source funds from other sources to make the most of the opportunities that come your way.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. participation in decision making and autonomy, along with supervisory career support (information, advice, and encouragement).

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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. That is a million dollar advice for anyone who is building teams and organizations. Don’t Kill It!

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

In classic microeconomic terms, where firms previously focused on how best to manage transaction costs, platforms require top management to creatively cultivate transaction surplus. Which users could become 10%, 50% or 100% more valuable with better information, advice or apps? That’s the essence of network effects.

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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

My sense is that any company that finances itself this way is a fraud, so the best advice for executives is probably turn yourselves in. From the evidence of the IPO prospectus it filed last week, Groupon is playing this speculative finance game (it lost $456 million last year, and has $118 million cash in the bank). A lot of U.S.

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