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.

Career 14

Career CFO Sample Execution 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the age of the maverick, the startup, and, dare I say it, as the cofounder of Fast Company , "The Brand Called You." That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. It sounds counterintuitive, I know.

IPO 15

IPO Wilde Brand CEO 15

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature. 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.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 11

Banking Strategy Film Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. Firms like this have not so much developed their own risk tolerance as found a way to pay others for theirs. Let's start with the human side. We could go on, but we don't need to.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Yet it does not have a single representative on Interbrand’s list of the top 100 global brands. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Seek partnerships with Western brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

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. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. After all, GM and many other brands around the world have learned the art and science of advertising by investing in campaigns that stand out from others, literally and figuratively. Controversy erupted.

Advertising 15

Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. Because they are innovative by nature, consumer tech companies need to invest heavily in research and development, which could be done if they had a portfolio of products at different stages of maturity, with some of them being established cash cows.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. After all, GM and many other brands around the world have learned the art and science of advertising by investing in campaigns that stand out from others, literally and figuratively. Controversy erupted.

Advertising 12

Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Aside from stocks, he dabbled in an activist brand of angel investing: holding large stakes and board seats in several start-up health care businesses, all based in Spain. Families were deeply involved in developing treatment programs. Why would an IPO be so bad? He had two ex-wives, a 25-year-old girlfriend, and no children.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The President's branding predicament echoes that of another fast-moving American icon: Facebook. For voters, switching to Mitt Romney ( who has branding challenges of his own ), may be a risk they don't want to bear — and that's the "status update" President Obama will be driving home until Election Day.

Planning 8

Planning IPO Politics Brand 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101