Engineering Finance Innovation IPO 
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2011
Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. It was always meant to be a "social innovation," a way for corporations to make a profit at the same time that they do something good for society. And all of those innovations are opportunities for businesses.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2012
In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2012
In the past, the magic formula was two engineers or an engineer and a businessman. The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. They made calculators, personal computers, databases, search engines and payment processors.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. It's something that U.S.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2013
The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership. Ethics Finance Risk management' Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.
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