Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

Christensen 20

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. ” This ended up being the “true north” our employees rallied around.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. What should executives do when their company is caught up in a bubble?

Company 13

Company Finance Price IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

Credit Scoring 11

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

entrepreneurs, just over $50,000) they typically seek more modest amounts of outside investment and are not typically working towards an acquisition or IPO. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So far, Obama's team has thrived here, successfully beating the daylights out of Mitt Romney's record, including his work at Bain Capital and his personal finances. isn't the most compelling rallying cry.) If the day's headlines are about your opponent's missteps ( self-imposed or otherwise), it's a victory: they're not thrashing you.

Planning 8

Planning IPO Politics Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The new frontier for software is applying our highly developed, easily deployable technology stack to a whole new range of industries, where the problems can't be properly solved just by firing up a text editor and initializing a LAMP stack. And this has implications for the whole ecosystem because, "then everyone loses. No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The new frontier for software is applying our highly developed, easily deployable technology stack to a whole new range of industries, where the problems can't be properly solved just by firing up a text editor and initializing a LAMP stack. And this has implications for the whole ecosystem because, "then everyone loses. No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. Decisive actions are required to tackle the factors that prompted the spin-off in the first place, which in many cases are underperformance and/or a lack of strategic fit leading to chronic underinvestment in the development of the business.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 and the development team in Israel. But is all of that changing? We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. He is currently creating new businesses inside the Hearst Corporation, where he''s been driving the development of Manilla.com for almost 2 years.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Families were deeply involved in developing treatment programs. I'm not a finance person, but that seems too soon to me.". Why would an IPO be so bad? In different rooms of the center, groups might be doing physical or music therapy. The staff-to-patient ratio was 1 to 6. Hours were flexible.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. This clause automatically converts a superior voting share to a low-vote class at a fixed time after IPO. Other studies, however, show that dual-class structure might be optimal in certain scenarios. stock exchanges.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. Most of the developing world is overwhelmingly cash-dependent; in Malaysia, Peru, and Egypt, only 1% of transactions are cashless. .” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6 Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

Stage-Gate 9

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8