Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot. Despite the check’s warning that something was amiss, managers decided to push forward anyway. But when 11:05 arrived, nothing happened.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

I talked recently with David Galenson , an economist at the University of Chicago who began studying prices at art auctions — an exploration that drove him to understand the nature of creativity over the course of one's career. And as managers and leaders, it behooves us to be open-minded and show similar faith in our employees. "I

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011.

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Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

The time he had so far spent on CyGaNet was time others had spent in college auditoria and bars, so in a way he was still at the start of his career. But through “a lot of hard work, creativity, and a portion of luck” they managed they get without too much damage, he said. billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation.

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Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am. A message that random is easy to ignore. The guy doesn't know anybody?

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Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent. Entrepreneurship Talent management Employee retention Africa'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But as an engineer with young kids points out, when he''s able to hang out with his friends whose wives stay at home, "I think they probably have progressed more in their careers than I have in some ways. Sure, taking care of your kids is "providing." Part of it is psychological: I have to remind myself, I am not a second-class citizen.”.

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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. You get this. We know you get this.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. If things don't go your way when you're launching a new strategy, or pitching a long-shot idea to a skeptical investor, don't relegate yourself gloomily to a future in middle management. but it was failure. First, welcome to the club.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It had appeared in a special online supplement of Businessweek on the subject of diversity, and it concerned the company's efforts to increase female and minority representation in management. Charles Begley, GlobeBank's managing director of diversity recruiting, was already reading it onscreen, dumbfounded. "We This is a business.

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Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8

Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? “But I have never had trouble with senior management,” she said. Anyone can take a dive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

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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. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. billion company in 1995 to an $11 billion dollar company in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. In 2010 I spent an afternoon with one of CEO Mike’s highest-performing store managers, a person I will call Ethan.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Do you define your own standards of career excellence? If you are counting upon that Life Changing Event (an IPO, M&A, or that hot investment tip), you are not working towards plan achievement. Do you define your own standards of career excellence? You are wishing for statistically unlikely events.

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Succession IPO Comparison Career 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

That the job of managers isn't just to "deliver product" — but to impact lives. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. I'd say: yesterday's social media superstars turned out to be a little like today's meggings: fashionable mistakes many would rather pretend didn't really happen.

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Media Fashion IPO Brand 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. (Interestingly, Dice’s founders had moved the company far from Silicon Valley – to Des Moines, Iowa – before the late 1990’s crash.).

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