Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Research Identifies “Green Ceiling” for Women Seeking IPO Investors. Women CEOs and the State of Female Executives. s Record Number of Women CEOs Reaches 20. Women-Owned Businesses Employ More People Than Walmart and More. Wage Gap Costs Women 92 Weeks of Food, 13 Months of Rent, and Nearly 3,000 Gallons of Gas.

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CEO Insider

JULY 25, 2020

Consider this: Dealogic reports there were 175 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in 2019, while 47 firms were taken private. Lots of companies move from private to public and public to private. And deals involving public companies being taken private by domestic private equity sponsors increased more than 27 percent over 2018.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The startup had been well on its way to initiating an IPO back in 2019 but the pandemic drove the idea completely out of the works. After its first failed IPO attempt, the company struggled to bring its valuation up at all. According to the latest updates on WeWork Inc., only WeWork’s U.S.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 15, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

If you’ve got outside funders, they’re demanding more and better financial reporting from you, and your board is starting to breathe down your neck about preparing for an IPO. S tay in some sort of leadership role, but bring in an experienced CEO from outside. But when are you going to find the time? Look for a buyer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2021

On average, their value-add tends to decline after an IPO.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. There are things that only the CEO can do. 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 came up with an awesome idea. You started a company.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Consider the roller-coaster summer that WeWork had and the news that CEO Adam Neumann has stepped down. Neumann came under fire after the company’s prospectus filing for the IPO revealed heavy losses and a wide discrepancy in the distribution of power between him and the company’s other shareholders.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

When the Faichild board seeks a new CEO from outside the company, the remaining two members of the original eight also leave, feeling slighted for not being placed in the role. or returns massive investments (look at Intel Stock since IPO), what do you do? All of the “Traitorous Eight” eventually leave, but two.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts. Don't Delay.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

As you may know, King Digital, the company behind the blockbuster game Candy Crush Saga , is about to IPO. Jim Surowiecki in the New Yorker and Felix Salmon at Reuters (and many, many others) have analyzed the IPO. The company is seeking a valuation of up to $7.6 I’m not the only one using boldface italics and exclamation points.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google wasn’t the first example (see: Apple) but the meme is closely linked to former CEO Eric Schmidt’s role at the company. Schmidt himself recounted part of his experience at Google in a 2010 article , which describes at length the company’s “quirky” Dutch auction IPO. Business in the age of Google.

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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.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pandemic brought many problems facing the business community to the forefront of people’s consciousness – owners, leadership, managers, and employees. As a result, the traditional outlook of having people work long hours and perform tasks without asking questions met a severe roadblock.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

People often join a network because they’re inspired by its purpose, whether that’s to improve a community’s school lunch program or protect a sprawling wildlife preserve. But people stay for a very different reason: who is involved. Which means who is part of a network is just as important, if not more important, than why […].

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 14, 2021

Innovation can transform your business, but it won’t just happen randomly. These 3 steps can help you strategically encourage innovation in your company. After being ousted from Apple and spending 12 years on other ventures, Steve Jobs returned to a company in shambles. The business was close to bankruptcy, but Jobs had a plan. The cure […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The best way to make your product high end is to price it at a premium. The higher pricing creates an immediate perception of value. A lot of business owners are afraid to charge more for their product or services because they have limiting beliefs about their buyers. There are many consumers out there who […].

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 13, 2022

The performance management process — and conducting performance reviews in particular — is often a source of frustration for leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about. Lots of control is something that many CEOs have, but Zuckerberg will have something else entirely: he can't be terminated. But in most cases, CEOs don't own such a claim and yet still have quite a lot of control. So why IPO? This is difficult to judge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. There is a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

There’s an interesting fact about companies with these kinds of moats or competitive advantages that often gets overlooked: the turnover rate of CEOs among the S&P as a whole is between ten and twenty times higher than in the big entrepreneurial successes of the past few decades. The odds aren’t favorable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. IPOs dried up. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short-form entertainment for mobile rather than full-length movies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

When I wrote a cover story on Google for Time magazine in 2006 , there was a widespread sense in the industry that CEO Eric Schmidt had been brought into Google ( he had previously been CEO of Novell ) to provide "adult supervision" to the kids who had founded the company. Good answer," Page quickly added.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. And even with the best of intentions, most CEOs start off disadvantaged in building the next big thing. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

A study on CEOs giving IPO road-show presentations found that even hardened financial advisors judge a leader’s “competence and trustworthiness” within as little as 30-seconds. These snap judgments are so powerful, CEOs who rated the highest for their executive presence in the study enjoyed higher IPO valuations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 19, 2022

A tall, thin man in his late fifties approached me after my closing keynote for a manufacturing association conference on how manufacturing leaders can avoid business disasters. He looked distraught and agitated. I hoped he wasn’t angry with something I said. Mark introduced himself and asked me to tell him more about one of the […].

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. A CEO is far removed from the day-to-day concerns of most workers.

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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. Scott was disturbed by the pressure he was getting.

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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. Scott was disturbed by the pressure he was getting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

In June 2017 longtime CEO Jeff Immelt resigned under unrelenting Trian and shareholder pressure, and John Flannery took over as CEO. It is no wonder that other CEOs tend not to welcome activist investor “help” with open arms. Four months later Garten joined the board. And with the stock closing at $13.96

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

I learned the importance and challenge of focus early, when I served as CEO of a startup called Intralinks. ’” Later, Intralinks decided to try to IPO. So we decided not to IPO. The company makes digital workspaces for large financial transactions. We went on a public road show in August 2000.

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