Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. Know something about everybody else’s job.

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Crisis IPO Film How To 11

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. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

Energy 10

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Last week, Twitter’s management subtly let the world know of their upcoming IPO in 140 characters or less. And in almost all of these cases, Twitter is just being thrown into the role of the next social tech IPO. A simple, succinct message. The thrust of it: “We’re coming.”. Twitter isn’t dependent on winners or losers.

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IPO Company Media Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. 15,000), a website, pirated films of wildlife massacres that were "youtubed", and a network of supporters in online forums.

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

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