Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier. The Future of Financial Services.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” ” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.”

Company 53

Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

To focus on businesses that are closer in spirit to the prototypical high-tech startup, we used a variety of indicators: whether the firm was granted a patent, received VC investment, or operated in an industry that employs a high fraction of STEM workers. These averages, however, hide a large amount of variation across industries.

Succession 15

Succession IPO Entrepreneur Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. IPOs dried up. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup. And it may work.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

IPO 8

IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images. In 2010, J.P Lessons from Microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This is especially true in hotly contested markets where fast growth can be the difference between success or failure. As a next step, we correlated replacement with whether the startup achieves an IPO or an “attractive” exit, defined as the company being sold for more than 150% of capital raised. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Policies Execution 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks. IPOs have huge costs and risks.

IPO 62

IPO Real Estate Cost Company 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

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 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background. Consider the industry I call home, enterprise software. All of their leaders have staying power.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. These VCs live entirely on the fee stream.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. 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.

Motivation 11

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. How do you get back on top? For more background on the potential deal, click here.) So will it work?

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. We soon figured out why.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Its IPO is “ unusual.” ” The IPO will finally put a market value on Twitter—is it $10 billion? So does this mean Twitter is being overvalued as a new media brand as it approaches its IPO? Advertising Social media Tech industry' There are already winners and losers. 100 billion?—and

Media 9

Media IPO Follow-up Content 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

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. Some countries in Africa don't have stock exchanges, and where the exchange does exist — for instance, in Nigeria — the markets don't value tech stocks very well.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

billion auto industry bailout. Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO. Ryndee Carney, GM North America's VP of Marketing and Advertising, says the message represents, a "capstone," and "a thank you for helping with the comeback." That's a holiday message worth sharing.

IPO 13

IPO Advertising Brand Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Is there a market opportunity the company is overlooking? Erik Mason, the marketing communications manager for an aesthetic skin laser company in the Northeast, felt the firm needed a new image. Other companies with slicker marketing were gaining market share even though they had inferior technology,” Mason says.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. As the giants continue to duke it out, Zipcar has captured 80% of the industry it created.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

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. In fact, they're taking over what used to be a central function of the downsized news industry: watchdog reporting.

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. For now, the blended models based on personal scores and business-specific data continue to be the industry standard.

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

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?”

Planning 9

Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress. True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. Choice Two enters markets with low friction to access many buyers and suppliers.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

At the time the merger negotiations began, AOL was enjoying intense investor interest, to the point where a company that was only 15 years old and had been public for only 8 years had a higher market capitalization than media powerhouse Time Warner. Some (12) of the firms had an IPO, and collectively enjoyed valuation that at its peak was $5.4

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Business Model IPO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. But venture capitalists have focused on specific markets and business models, because of the constraints of the exit, which is how investors have made their returns to-date.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

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.

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.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. For now, the blended models based on personal scores and business-specific data continue to be the industry standard.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The financial results of Groupon's traditional business continue to deteriorate, especially in mature markets, and new ventures such as Groupon Now also have failed to drive profits. Now, the venture capital markets cannot supply more capital and the company must depend on the IPO market to finance its money-losing operations.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. SSOs comprise a massive, yet almost invisible, industry. Now they are very focused on making money. The SSO is therefore a platform for creating platforms.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 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. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Many of them have been growing at a ferocious pace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After enterprise tech start-up Box filed to go public last month, revealing founder Aaron Levie’s remaining stake to be just over 4% (plus stock options) , commentators seemed compelled to note just how much control the 28-year-old founder had given up on the road to an IPO. The data comes from a survey of 6,130 U.S.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Human Capital 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. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30