Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. A close look at the core ideas of technology strategy suggests that beneath the sound and the fury lies a set of fundamental principles that can guide leaders in making smart choices.

IPO 9

IPO Productivity Products Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. .” technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. ”

Company 53

Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

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

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. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

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. In fact, SSOs played a major role in the technological revolution, reverberating throughout the world, from smart mobile phones.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. 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.

Motivation 12

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 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.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. The article, by J.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. To determine which new firms are likely to grow, Guzman and Stern developed an algorithm that predicts the chances of a startup going public or being acquired for a significant sum.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The interesting part of this shift is that VCs are taking a more holistic or "systems" approach to investing than they typically do in developed markets. Because of three significant challenges innovators face in emerging markets: Innovation ecosystems are not well-developed.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

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.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. It was a highly valued change.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

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. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. Technology is almost always best applied as a solution to a defined market problem. It enables the product to function.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 11

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. Android, for example, is a platform for users, developers, and handset makers. And it’s not just these humongous companies.

Participative 8

Participative Business Model IPO B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. My job is to sort out the companies with potential from those that need to go back to the drawing board. Hyundai is an -er brand.

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. On the Friday before one of my key hires, with an impressive background from a top global technology company, was scheduled to start work, I got a nervous sounding call from him. China's population has developed a significant gender imbalance, with 119 boys for every 100 girls.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In addition, native Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Weibo, and Momo are having some of the most successful IPOs in U.S. From how we code to how we type, much of the world’s biggest advancements were developed with the English-speaking market in mind. What if language barriers stood in the way of these technologies?

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. I observed their interests.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell. Indeed, many would-be entrepreneurs who are drawn by the romantic vision of developing a snazzy new app or product pooh-pooh selling as beneath their dignity.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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. Even a rumor of a breach can trigger a communications crisis. A hacker going by the name of ‘Tumbleweed’ enters a forum and brags that the device can be hacked.

Planning 9

Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

CFO 8

CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

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.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. Innocentive is a network that brings together "seekers" with technology challenges with "solvers" all over the world. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

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.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 10

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 the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. But is all of that changing? We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

When markets or technologies change, it often requires entire segments of the value network to be reimagined. Meanwhile, sensor technology is both proliferating and dropping in cost, allowing the types of data captured by businesses to become ever more contextually relevant. The types of tools that developers need will change.

Software 8

Software Trends Mass Marketing Marketing 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.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. Second, for a book we're writing on the DNA of entrepreneurship, my co-authors Richard Harrington, Tsun-yan Hsieh, and I have developed a checklist on how to reflect on failure. In one context or another, you've likely failed, too.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15