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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Technology, manufacturing, research and development, or human know-how – whatever the capability, acquisitions are a way to acquire it. Chewy, for its part, gained a bulwark against established brick-and-mortar competitors, including those operating in one of retail’s bright spots: pet care services. Capability upgrades.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But recent technological developments like artificial intelligence (AI) are now helping companies overcome many of the challenges to contracting. These firms have generally seen an increase in productivity and efficiency in their contracting. And even more routine transactions required employees to pay close attention to details.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Indeed, due to increased commercial complexity in global companies as well as the growing impact of business and society issues, the expertise, quality, breadth, power, and compensation of the General Counsel have increased dramatically in recent decades. Compliance. What’s radically changed in recent years is complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. based product and services businesses that also tended to manufacture and deliver their products via U.S.-based based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If the customers haven’t changed much, point to changes in the competitive environment that make your strategy less sound today than it was when it was developed. Then develop a risk profile for your current strategy using the same framework you’re using to assess your new strategic options.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions and a fragile economy. For non-U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Start with a survey.

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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

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. Step 1: Develop a Profit and Loss Statement. In developing organizational solutions, we believe that explicitly choosing from a number of options is the best approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. Those losses stemmed not from poor product, marketing, or supply chain decisions but from regulatory violations, loss of business and fines resulting from bribery and fraud, and concomitant reputational damage.

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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. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you were operating based on rational self-interest one could argue that you would buy as many tickets as possible. If the deal goes south, the questions the board will always ask is: Did you do your due diligence? Imagine you’ve been offered a way to purchase $1 lottery tickets for a penny each. How many would you buy?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Fortunately, more people are doing their due diligence these days. We all have our own cultural lens that we've developed since we were kids. Molinsky suggests developing prototypes instead. In the 1990s, he was transferred to an operations position in the Middle East. Be prepared to be uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. The lack of traceability and transparency extended to the costs for specialized equipment that was used only for particular products or customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Here’s a quick one-question quiz: What is the most important requirement for a successful product launch? A great product. A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). And that means marginal products can outsell superior ones — just look at Microsoft vs. Apple. A great distribution plan to sell it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of charitable donations, artistic projects, or cool product development in exchange for samples or royalties, can work and has worked. The conduct of due diligence in the ventures raising money will render crowdfunding prohibitively expensive and thus impractical. Due diligence is too expensive.

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