The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 19, 2020
Despite the consensus that change is required, however, the lack of political cooperation on the matter results in little real progress being made. The gift of global talent. Professor William R. ” Starved of talent.
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, 2018
As a reminder, the dot-com crash was preceded by the dot-com bubble, a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO) to March 2000 when there was massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, including in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. IPOs dried up. Then one day it was over.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2017
Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2016
Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. Many have supermajority voting that essentially requires their diverse members to reach consensus. Now they are very focused on making money.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2014
Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. The loners, those willing to go against the consensus, are anything but predictable. Nonconformist thinking has the best potential for genius.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. 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.
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