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

AUGUST 30, 2017

This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Then, after a few of those investors ousted co-founder and CEO Ev Williams in a boardroom coup late in 2010, Twitter raised another $1.2 billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass? billion in less than a year.

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Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits.

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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. The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background.

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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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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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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Several individuals I spoke to for my book, Before I Was CEO , provide a helpful guide. David Kenny, then CEO of Digitas, a U.S.-based Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images.

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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. Stock markets were tanking as the dot-com bubble was bursting. So we decided not to IPO. The company makes digital workspaces for large financial transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

“The idea may be great, but if it’s not communicated well, it won’t get any traction,” says Nancy Duarte, the author of the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations and CEO of Duarte, Inc., Is there a market opportunity the company is overlooking? An 8-fold increase in the marketing budget. ” says Sheen.

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

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. Peer relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. CEOs will need to shift their mindset now if they want to avoid their own “Kodak moment.”

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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

JUNE 12, 2012

A few weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about people who had opened up their very first investment accounts just to get in on the Facebook IPO. It also seems likely that he's kicking himself today, as the value of the stock has dropped almost 25% since its May 17 IPO. But was that so? What's Your Risk Attitude?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. Sunny Verghese, the company’s CEO and cofounder, directly involves himself in all promotions of his top 800 employees, each of whom he knows by name and has an opinion about.

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. How do you get back on top? Do Tech Buyouts Actually Work?

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

A charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail. One CEO who had the ability to turn around a disaster was Frank Baldino of Cephalon. When disaster strikes, a forward-thinking CEO needs a back-up plan.

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Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

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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TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. What really makes them work? Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. That sort of nosebleed growth has panicked a lot of big-company CEOs who live in fear of being “Uberized.” based unicorns accounted for 56% of the total, with a combined market value of $353 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. Advantages typically include an established customer base, brand equity, market knowledge, and financial resources. Of course not.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Discount IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Sitting at his kitchen table after another long day of meetings and interviews, the CEO read the e-mail from his board chair again, this time out loud to his wife, Fleura: “It’s the strong feeling of the board that someone needs to be held publicly responsible for what happened. We’ve got an IPO to prepare for, after all.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2011

Fast forward four years and LinkedIn is a public company with a market cap of more than $9 billion and revenues of about $400 million. LinkedIn didn't create the very quiet tech market it was born into, but it definitely benefited from it. In 2003 there were no tech IPOs at all. It stuck with its target market.

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IPO Advertising Business Model Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

After 37 years in charge, Larry Ellison finally stepped down as Oracle’s CEO on Thursday. And the new co-CEOs, Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, will continue to do the same things they did as co-presidents, the only difference being that they will now report to the board instead of just to Ellison. Except that he’s not really stepping down.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. BlueArc’s top team remained confident because they knew the company was strong in three critical areas: The ability to predict the market. Forecasting acumen.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

In the book, I tell the stories of scale-up entrepreneurs from around the world, and how they beat the odds to make a mark on their markets. I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell.

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Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

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. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After enterprise tech start-up Box filed to go public last month, revealing founder Aaron Levie’s remaining stake to be just over 4% (plus stock options) , commentators seemed compelled to note just how much control the 28-year-old founder had given up on the road to an IPO.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Human Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. The only time in its history when Apple raised funds on the stock market was its 1980 IPO, which provided it with $97 million.

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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. Usually, startup success means hiring a “professional CEO,” so domain expertise also means you have the option of staying on at your company and learning the CEO ropes.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

It's okay for you if asset prices stop rising, but if they fall dramatically — or if the market for them simply stops functioning — you're in big trouble. Market sentiment shifted (possibly because of the Barron's article), the prices of Internet stocks tanked, and within a year or two most of the 51 were no longer with us.

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Company Finance Price IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Few things are more damaging to a brand’s reputation than a hack in the headlines, and in the event of a public security incident, it’s highly likely that the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) will be the first people the CEO looks to and says “What do we do now?”

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

It seems that at this point both the company and its legendary CEO, Jeff Bezos, can do no wrong. One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States. market, it would be much more difficult for the company to achieve sustainable growth.

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