Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Having observed management teams for decades as a mutual fund and portfolio manager, I have watched numerous companies vanish after a disastrous launch of a product or service. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. What do you do next?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. In other words, "we" is bigger than "me" — the true measure of success is not the value you create for yourself but the values that define your work and how you lead and live.

IPO 17

IPO Wilde Brand CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

But by jumping on the buyback bandwagon — something Steve Jobs refused to do — Apple’s current top management has shown the same lack of strategic vision that has undermined many once-great American companies, including Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

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 most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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. It is a core continuity management strategy in a market scarce on technology talent. Entrepreneurship Talent management Employee retention Africa'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Not" is not a typo.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So at the Cancun climate talks , one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. That country?

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GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

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. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

” But achieving decentralization requires a meaningful investment in capital in order to attract a distributed network of users and network managers that maintain the decentralized ledgers (or nodes). As Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin notes , “Once you adopt a richer economic model…decentralization becomes more important.”

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. In a good start-up, these characteristics are not hard to find.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. Norwegian made a promising first move under its new management: It began offering guests what it called Freestyle Cruising, which provided multiple dining and entertainment venues with flexible times, as opposed to the industry model at the time of single venues with set times.

Company 10

Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

His money would allow her to pursue a new, perhaps more comfortable, growth strategy, directly managing 10 new centers instead of franchising them as she'd done with 11 of the 12 existing locations. Why would an IPO be so bad? She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. Chavez needed another round of training.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

As one Huawei employee said: “The pads were to us a representation of hard work in the old days and this idea has now been translated into the spirit of being dedicated to do the best in anything we do” Knowing that a dedicated and committed work force makes companies more competitive is not a too difficult concept to understand.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. two years later) to as it became clear that the ranks of potential customers weren’t going to keep growing exponentially as they had during the dot-com boom.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. And companies that weren’t as focused on showcasing the innovative side of their brand, are now committing significant resources to it.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101