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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. For these professionals, a future IPO is outweighed by today’s OPI — the opportunity for positive impact.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 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

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Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Strategic value, on the other hand, has little to do with any of those things and almost everything to do with how a company’s product and/or market position help or hinder another company’s (usually a bigger one’s) ability to be successful. In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5 billion.

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Price IPO Wilde Examples 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Any significant, value-relevant development must be immediately disclosed rather than waiting for the annual report.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As Johnson had described it in much more depth in a Time cover story a few months before, what made Twitter so promising and interesting and important was “the fact that many of its core features and applications have been developed by people who are not on the Twitter payroll.” billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

An -er position is a dangerous one to adopt. A well-conceived brand platform and positioning can relegate competitors to irrelevance. There are several ways to position a brand as breakthrough. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target.

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Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Rather, Groupon felt the need to include a metric of profitability, no matter how contrived, that was actually positive. Now, the venture capital markets cannot supply more capital and the company must depend on the IPO market to finance its money-losing operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Before the company’s $155 billion IPO in 2014 — the largest initial public offering in history — he observed, “we want to help small businesses grow by solving their problems.” This same socially shared educational/advisory capability can be seen in SAP’s carefully built developer community.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. Related Video.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. Like the toy importer, BlueArc made a major investment risk: developing and launching a new product while cash was dwindling.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 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.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In an instant, any business can find itself in the frightening position of watching the brand you’ve worked so hard to build being taken to its knees by a cyber breach. Here’s a generalized scenario similar to cases we’ve experienced: A hot new mobile technology company lands one of the most successful IPOs of the year.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

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. For example, someone that liked electronics development likely wouldn’t jump for an administrative job in a bank with marginal pay difference. I observed their interests.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

The development of these technologies is setting the stage for machines to think. The types of tools that developers need will change. Companies like Uber, Amazon Prime, Makespace, and WeWork are all positioned to succeed based on these changes. Some of the opportunity will be in the development of on-demand services.

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Software Trends Mass Marketing Marketing 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. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

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

Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

” You can avoid the shock, and perhaps even prevent the setback from happening, if you develop the ability and the willingness to read the subtext beneath the surface. Even before the setback occurs, start thinking about how to deal with it from a position of strength. And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO?

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Gilbert Public Relations IPO Handbook 130

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

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. Because they are innovative by nature, consumer tech companies need to invest heavily in research and development, which could be done if they had a portfolio of products at different stages of maturity, with some of them being established cash cows.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

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.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. So why is Facebook steadfast in its position to not cash in and offer these units? Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued. The answer is user experience. Facebook is home to over 900 million engaged users.

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. So why is Facebook steadfast in its position to not cash in and offer these units? Controversy erupted. Accusations ensued. The answer is user experience. Facebook is home to over 900 million engaged users.

Advertising 13

Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In return, I would want a 25% stake, a board seat, a vote on all strategic decisions, and the ability to liquidate my position in five years, should I so choose, either through a public offering or a sale.". Families were deeply involved in developing treatment programs. Why would an IPO be so bad? Hours were flexible.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

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.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

That trend is more than five years old, but it’s particularly notable given two other developments. ” Perhaps that’s because VCs got distracted by the siren song of social media companies, especially after Facebook’s incredibly successful 2012 IPO. First, another recent Brookings analysis found that U.S.

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Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. It also often involves a public offering of stock (initial public offering, or IPO) to access capital. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In politics, the central question you face in devising your campaign strategy is whether you're running as a challenger (a role Obama played to perfection in 2008, promising "hope" and "change") or an incumbent, which is a marvelous position if the country is thriving, and a terrible one if it isn't.

Planning 8

Planning IPO Politics Brand 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.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8