Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Lending Club, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending start-up, filed for an IPO yesterday, hoping to raise half a billion dollars at a $5 billion valuation. Finance Small/medium business Technology' But as of earlier this year, the company has expanded into the world of commercial loans , specifically for small businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. Follow-up tests erased any reasonable, or benefit of the, doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? A key difference between successful pioneers and followers was how many innovations they launched. A key difference between successful pioneers and followers was how many innovations they launched.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

But in this case, it was the main reason for the in-depth conversations that followed, with little if any analysis of alternative partners. His success led him to a promotion up the ladder in the US firm, leaving the partnership without a full- time godfather. True, that is how the idea for a deal may first arise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

.” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

Things were fine while he was doing the easy stuff, but when he got to the steps and the curved walls, he started making it up as he went along. Eventually, the project needed significant rework, and floors needed to be ripped up. Following those rules would have made my floor job go a lot more smoothly. But I broke them all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Every high-growth enterprise can name a moment of affirmation that changed everything – that first big win that established credibility and created the launching pad for what followed. In 2008, I was on the business team at OnLive—a high-flying start-up in search of huge amounts of cash to turn a big idea into reality.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

For an enterprise that builds toilet and shower facilities in urban slums and business districts, it will tally up the number of times the toilets and showers are used. How General Mills Uses Food Technology to Make an Impact in Africa. But why stop at these output measures? Why Don't the Best Nonprofits Grow?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

Beyond the fact that they’re inexpensive ways to get people together – think: no travel costs and readily available technology – they’re also great opportunities to build engagement, trust and candor among teams. Each team member then gets five minutes on the agenda to discuss his or her issue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

However, you can get some insights from due-diligence inquiries, interviews with former members of the company (including those in your own organization), or the internet— whether through the company’s own publications or sites such as LinkedIn, which enable you to profile individual managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Fortunately, more people are doing their due diligence these days. Don't beat yourself up for feeling this way. You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. Managers of global teams often end up building a hybrid culture. Accept that it is part of the process.

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Globalization Engineering Due Diligence Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

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. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper.

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