Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

Management 8

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 8

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.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 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. 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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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.”

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 9

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. Thus begins a cycle of frustration in Africa’s tech sector around the ability to hire and retain the right team. I observed their interests.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

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.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

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.

Crisis 8

Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 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.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 13

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8