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Beyond the Transaction: How to Make Business Shifts Successful

CEO Insider

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.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company. You got funding. Maybe you’re looking for Series B or C funding now. Congratulations! You’re ready to scale or go public. You’ve gotten this far. Others do not.

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Why Executives Should Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Executives Must Talk About Racial Bias at Work

Harvard Business Review

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.

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What to Do If Your Career Is Stalled and You Don’t Know Why

Harvard Business Review

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

It will be interesting to see how a former CFO will face up to these formidable challenges, complicated further by reports that the ECB isn’t allowing the Volkswagen group to fully benefit from the central bank’s “cheap” money.

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Midsized Firms Can’t Afford Bad Bets

Harvard Business Review

BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

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