Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about. So why IPO? That is, the IPO is a good way to get rich, quick. But pursuing broader goals will not necessarily put an end to maximizing shareholder returns. Every goal he has set for himself has panned out. It is likely to be the largest in history (cool).

IPO 15

IPO Incentives Entrepreneur Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. For these professionals, a future IPO is outweighed by today’s OPI — the opportunity for positive impact.

Motivation 11

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

It was one of the world’s highest-grossing IPOs in a year when the market was otherwise in chaos due to the mortgage lending crisis. In 2010, in India, the microfinance institution SKS also went through an IPO that generated millions in profits — along with an impressive amount of scandal and intrigue.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. Verghese and his team believed that they could differentiate the company to global customers like Nestlé by focusing on the end-to-end supply chain, with the goal of managing the whole thing themselves.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan. Whether you want to call it vision, Heart, purpose or calling, be very clear on the why of a business — the bigger goal at hand.

Planning 20

Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says. Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. Address your audience’s concerns.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

During the private beta we will engage with some influentials (example A-listers ) and our goal is to convert these influentials into evangelists. The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

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. The principal goal of stakeholder media is not to make friends but to tell other people what to do.

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Rather, it should look to make such an acquisition for the dynamic leader at the helm, who likely has a more pro-innovation agenda and greater tolerance for short-term failures in the pursuit of longer-term goals. This simply isn’t in the DNA of most financial institutions, but it’s sorely needed.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

If you haven't been invited to the White House or launched an IPO or made the cover of a national newsmagazine before age 35, there's absolutely no reason to believe you can't still accomplish those goals later in life. But late bloomers can take comfort in his finding that creativity isn't one-size-fits-all.

IPO 14

IPO Creativity Comparison Reputation 14

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.” ” The goal is not simply to match buyers and sellers but rather to “expand the boundaries of business.”

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. And people will follow you if you're prepared to get a mission done, something with a goal that is a little bit beyond the reach of all of us.". It's never about you. It is always about the mission. Wise words from a game-changing CEO.

IPO 16

IPO Wilde Brand CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The board’s principal concern, it seemed, was less to guarantee good governance of VW than to reconcile the goals of key stakeholders and local officials. Volkswagen group profits come largely from the sales of Porsche and Audi, the large bulk of other sales being not that profitable.)

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

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. If you were following your authentic "true north" — a goal, purpose, or calling you know you were born to follow — it makes sense to evaluate how and why things went awry. In one context or another, you've likely failed, too.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Offer specific examples and describe the impact one’s actions — or inactions — have on the individual’s ability to reach their goals in the current role as well as on his or her upside potential.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

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. English facilitates the innovation economy because it allows individuals and companies around the world to communicate, and therefore collaborate toward a common vision or goal. What does this all mean?

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 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. This should also include knowing what kind of attacks make you most vulnerable, anticipating potential goals of an attack and running simulations as a working group.

Planning 9

Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Our research shows that the effects of acceleration are remarkably similar for entrepreneurs across countries and even continents.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

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. That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The email describes the startup’s idea and funding goal, as well as its founding team, traction, and current investors — but the latter three categories only appear if they pass a certain threshold defined by AngelList’s algorithm.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: That's why the traditional understanding of everything from GDP to " jobs " to " profit " to " IPO " is limited. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks. more, better information, faster.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Organizational characteristics — cultures, structures, politics, economic resources, their presence or absence, their allocation — put pressure on individuals to behave in deviant ways to achieve organizational goals. Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership.

Incentives 8

Incentives Banking Ethics IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. In a speech at the 2015 Drucker Forum, Zhang said, “Our goal is to let everyone become their own CEO.” Unicorns are to business journalists what Kim Kardashian is to Instagram users.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

He polled his VC colleagues: "The odds of actually receiving funding from a cold email: 50,000 to 1," he writes in his book Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get From Start-up to IPO on Your Terms. "So So when an entrepreneur makes a cold approach to a VC, it marks him as an outsider.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. While Brian could explain his goals using statements made by Eric Schmidt, this didn’t give him automatic legitimacy or the ability to compel others to adopt his recommendations.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

While imitation might not be the best way to grow an innovation sector, the resources they're devoting to the goal are bringing them closer to solutions that will work for them. But we also bet it isn't your usual perspective on the world of VCs and IPO lawyers. You get this. We know you get this.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

"No — but as I've always said, the company could rewrite its scorecards so that executives are evaluated not just on whether they're good bankers but on whether they're hitting diversity goals.". I've spent the past month doing pitchbooks for a pulp-and-paper IPO that's never going to happen," Anthony said.

Case Study 8

Case Study Diversity Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

CTO 9

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? But your goal is to go through it and not be fixated on failure. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, three-time mayor of New York City, was fired from Salomon Brothers. Anna Wintour, before becoming editor of Vogue, was fired from Harper’s Bazaar. Anyone can take a dive. Perhaps so.

Gilbert 130

Gilbert Public Relations IPO Handbook 130

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. If you are adhering to the lean methodology, this is particularly relevant: because innovating in this way will result in you trying and failing and learning for some time in pursuit of your goal.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. But, as Mike’s employees learned, hearing “no” can help boost us toward our goals. Don’t let the boss’s no stop you from achieving your goals. His answer blew me away.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This clause automatically converts a superior voting share to a low-vote class at a fixed time after IPO. We calculated the years after IPO when a growth company becomes a mature company in its lifecycle for the stocks listed on U.S. But how can one argue against a mandatory sunset clause? stock exchanges.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

If you define success as an exit from venture capital financing via acquisition or an IPO, female-led startups perform much worse than male-led startups. However, if female entrepreneurs get their funding from VCs solely led by men, their startups will be far less likely to be acquired or make it to an IPO. The big question is why?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Finance Succession IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. Many were also very sophisticated in tracking proven business models and companies, with the goal of identifying breakout hits and applying them to new geographies. Their latest goal? LinkedIn has surged over 100%.

IPO 9

IPO Insurance Entrepreneur Self-aware 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reported that their sales were $59 million in 2010 and rose 40% in the first half of 2011, with the company reportedly heading toward an IPO in the near future. The model also changes the customer experience, and creates a platform others can use to accomplish their goals. I would argue yes.

Business Model 11

Business Model IPO Review Report 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Her goal with Calidad de Vida had been to create an alternative to the traditional nursing home, a place where seniors of varying disabilities could come for the day and be rehabilitated through individually tailored activities. Why would an IPO be so bad? The end goal is to build awareness and improve health care practices, right?".

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13