CEO Insider
JULY 25, 2020
Consider this: Dealogic reports there were 175 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in 2019, while 47 firms were taken private. I’ve been a CFO at […]. Lots of companies move from private to public and public to private.
N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. There are things that only the CEO can do. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. If you’re the founder or CEO, there’s no one else at your level in the organization. T homas Brattle Gannett, aka “Toby” is the global chair of N2Growth’s Board and CEO practice. You started a company.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. This work underlines how, to succeed, the new Uber CEO must move quickly to win at both the inner and outer games of growth. Win at the Inner Game: Rid the Company of Barriers to Growth.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. This helped gain enough external confidence for Dan to remain CFO.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. This helped gain enough external confidence for Dan to remain CFO.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. June Buck/Getty Images.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO. The Volkswagen debacle, just like other big crises, reminds us how expensive weak governance can be.
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