Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

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. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions. Through my experience, I’ve seen how a university could improve its community.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There are three pieces of data that are particularly shocking to internet, software, and biotech entrepreneurs who are on the verge of committing their firms to starting firms in secondary startup markets (and, in particular, outside of the San Francisco Bay). Not focused on new marketing campaigns. It takes longer to raise money.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. 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.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? Billion-dollar companies do not happen if the founding team is not extremely well suited to the market (now called " founder/market fit "). No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives?

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

When Microsoft introduced Bing, its assertion of offering a fast-er search engine than Google sealed Bing’s fate as an Internet service step-child. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Branding Marketing Strategy' How – personality.

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Few things are more damaging to a brand’s reputation than a hack in the headlines, and in the event of a public security incident, it’s highly likely that the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) will be the first people the CEO looks to and says “What do we do now?” A news cycle begins.

Planning 9

Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Other risk-mitigation strategies .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech. And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States. Amazon is very active at communicating to customers, and invests significant effort and cost to appear always at the top of search engine results. Because its revenue model is based on advertising, it is closed to search engines.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Along with a surprise halving of the dividend, Flannery announced a review of the portfolio that would see the divestitures of numerous historic GE businesses, which ended up including light bulbs, appliances, and locomotive engines.

TSR 9

TSR Company IPO Hedge 9

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. The architecture is such that we could easily white-label our solution.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

While this story is not new, it represents the perfect example of a phenomenal corporate turnaround and the skills required to engineer such a recovery. Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. Baldino moved aggressively to bring Provigil to market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Biotechnology IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. Alphabet has singled out health and life sciences, and the impact on this sector could be more profound than what Google did with search-engine algorithms in advertising in the 1990s.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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. Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis.

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. But we also bet it isn't your usual perspective on the world of VCs and IPO lawyers. You get this.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. tech companies. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13