Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It might be to optimize the tax implications of new development. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them. This isn’t market research, but hands-on problem solving.

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Company Team Due Diligence Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. If a target got through the initial screen, the group was able to perform the necessary due diligence in three or four weeks.

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HR Digest

MAY 12, 2024

When it comes to recruitment, we’re all prone to making some common hiring mistakes that get repeated time and again once they’re programmed into our systems. In other instances, some recruiters just want to fill a position by any means necessary and hire without doing their due diligence and properly assessing the applications that come in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The CFO-GC alliance has always been important because the finance function and the legal function are truly the nervous system of the corporation—sending critical signals to all parts of the company about the accuracy of the financials and compliance with law. Compliance.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

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Company Due Diligence CEO Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From looking at the qualities of the CEOs at the best-performing of these firms, we have found three fundamental CEO qualities that drive growth in the most successful PE investments: Systems thinking (the capacity to understand how a change in one aspect of the workings of an operation affects the others).

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. They used a harsh phrase to describe this cause of failure: “no market need.” Test your marketing promise. To better leverage its foodie customer base, Yelp purchased Eat24.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Entrepreneur Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". CEOs can seek to attract long-term investors in several ways: 1.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors. Testing in these cases was not previously possible due to the cost of an on-site operator.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In addition, the highly competitive job market has triggered an increase in exaggerated claims, embellished resumes and “half truths” often missed in the hiring process. Secret #4: Develop a mission statement, results-oriented job description and list of non-negotiable traits before you start the hiring process.

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Cost Due Diligence Long-term Mission Statement 146

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines. There should be minimal interference with and/or demands made upon ongoing systems and processes. artpartner-images/Getty Images.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Meanwhile, proponents retort that there’s a real need for freedom to invest outside the accredited system, which sees the wealthy getting wealthier.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Its accounting system, however, remained simple and traditional. With careful study, Tommy had figured out that the company's costing system had made it blind to its own operations: It allocated factory overhead to products as a percentage markup over direct labor costs, and corporate overhead as a percentage of sales. Jane prompted.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. Go-To-Market Strategy planning and budgeting is just as vital to a successful launch as the product itself.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

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