Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. And in short order, the company achieved consistent double-digit sales growth — and a successful IPO.

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

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.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale. Founders tend to use their personal charisma and technical smarts to rally their teams, and that can work while a business is small.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.

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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

At the very least, it can buy time while management sorts out the right comprehensive response. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. And it just may permanently stall the new entrant. The story is the same with Weight Watchers.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

But looking at the website, and clicking through to the supplier, I didn't see any reference to the Fatboy brand. It therefore should be managed by someone who is empowered in the organization, with the authority, or access to someone with authority, to make things happen in a decisive manner. Social media is a frontline service.

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Media IPO Reputation Follow-up 14

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.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The two managers secured buy-in from top BMW R&D executives to launch such a unit, and they received top-management approval for the unit in July 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". 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. Not" is not a typo.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

If you should be so fortunate as to have a hiring manager follow you, make sure you send intelligent tweets that show you''re involved in and knowledgeable about online conversations relevant to the company. And think about how your personality shines through in your tweets. — Andy O''Connell. But Not For More than 20 Seconds.

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Dunning Kleiner Kaplan IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. Let's start with the human side.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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 become major branded players away from home, Chinese companies must address their challenges in three strategic ways.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Since the last financial crisis, many new regulations have been implemented to protect shareholders, increasing the pressure on management to meet earnings expectations by prioritizing short-term over long-term. For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high.

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IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

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. This business works only if the Calidad de Vida brand stands for quality, innovative care — across the board. Why would an IPO be so bad?

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The majority of people worldwide wouldn't care if two thirds of brands disappeared tomorrow. Just 20 percent of brands are seen to have a notable positive impact on people's lives. Those are two of the findings from Meaningful Brands , a little study we do at my Lab. Here's what I do mean.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. And companies that weren’t as focused on showcasing the innovative side of their brand, are now committing significant resources to it.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101