Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue. People often like to reference Apple as an example of a company that figured out how to use innovation to drive growth.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

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 a broader implication is that you learn how to deal with failure during a time when you can be tested without too much fallout. It is likely to be the largest in history (cool).

IPO 15

IPO Incentives Entrepreneur Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Whether you’re presenting on an analyst call or speaking to your entire organization in a town hall meeting, you’re being judged on your confidence and competence, not just your content, and the way you appear and how you sound matters. Army Commander Matt Eversmann, who teaches leadership at Johns Hopkins University.

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Audience Project IPO Kahneman 8

Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Those were the words of the leader of one of our multi-billion dollar clients, which accents the amazing changes in leadership over the last 40 years. . As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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Decentralization Blanchard IPO Call Center 81

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

If you want your business to grow sustainably at scale, you need to figure out how to make big investments that will best differentiate you in your core. The key element in all of this is how to apply the meritocracy. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade.

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Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In classic microeconomic terms, where firms previously focused on how best to manage transaction costs, platforms require top management to creatively cultivate transaction surplus. How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? That’s platform leadership.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This work underlines how, to succeed, the new Uber CEO must move quickly to win at both the inner and outer games of growth. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage. Win at the Inner Game: Rid the Company of Barriers to Growth.

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CEO IPO Energy COO 12

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. How you will make money is more important than pages of Excel showing financials that are simply too hard to predict at this early stage anyway.

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Planning Mintzberg IPO Entrepreneur 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Tom often hogs the spotlight in meetings unaware of how that alienates his peers. And…well…I don’t know how to put this, but he has noticeable body odor that’s a real turnoff.” Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Silicon Valley lore offers examples of exceptional founder-CEOs, such as Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, who were able to lead their companies through an IPO. In periods of growth, organizations will always have to figure out how to embrace the new without jettisoning what’s valuable about the old.

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Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. Its even 100% free!

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. And yet it is possible.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

I know how to find great people to hire. I used to think our great technology would take us to leadership in our market — now I realize it is our team, our organization, our marketing and our ambition to sell. We have to keep moving forward. Nothing gives me a bigger rush than closing a big sale. Sale is a big part of scale.

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Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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.,"

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. To avoid that problem, Sheehan and his team introduced the Vacation Hero program, which taught staff how to better engage guests and identify employees who had gone out of their way to make a passenger’s stay special.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high. What compels these companies to IPO prematurely is that they need to provide a liquidity event for their institutional investors, and sometimes for their founders or early employees. They need to maintain their leadership in the mobile space.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. In other words, how to get the attention of the passive candidate? They had revenue, after all.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101