CEO Insider

AUGUST 14, 2021

Innovation can transform your business, but it won’t just happen randomly. These 3 steps can help you strategically encourage innovation in your company. After being ousted from Apple and spending 12 years on other ventures, Steve Jobs returned to a company in shambles. The business was close to bankruptcy, but Jobs had a plan. The cure […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The best way to make your product high end is to price it at a premium. The higher pricing creates an immediate perception of value. A lot of business owners are afraid to charge more for their product or services because they have limiting beliefs about their buyers. There are many consumers out there who […].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality.

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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. There are hundreds of them (almost 1,000 by one count) around the world, competing with each other for membership and influence.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

And to succeed in today’s ever-changing, tech-enabled, global business climate, all leaders need to know how to influence. He says, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Every communication experience is an opportunity to influence. .

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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. But if that's the focus, it's surely misplaced. These "stakeholder media" aren't always Facebook or Twitter. With my colleagues Luk N.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2019

The kind of company it is influences investors and its valuation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

But the agenda needs to keep pace with what is influencing business, and amongst the things that board members need to fully appreciate is the growing influence and power of social media. Economics, politics, and sector shifts are all vital issues on the agenda in the boardroom. It is not just about political uprisings any more.

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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. Purchase frequency is highly influenced by customer income. However, the ultimate test for a business model comes not from being the disruptor but from how resilient it is to disruption itself. as a whole.

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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. Make sure you have relationships established with top broadcast, print, social, and security experts, as well as market influencers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. He built this network proactively and used it first to understand the mindset of key stakeholders and later to influence them to adopt his suggestions. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But in our relationships, particularly with colleagues, clients, and supervisors, we may be mistakenly prioritizing the fear of missing out on something digital and giving short shrift to something that actually matters: building influence. Your best bet is to lock eyes for seven to 10 seconds one-on-one, or three to five seconds in a group.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

This experiment illustrates how they use various cues to filter their pipeline — and how founders significantly influence their decisions to invest. The formula for long-term success may be different, though, when you consider how founders are often replaced , for various reasons, before the startup’s IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world. In Uber’s case, it’s hard to imagine most choices about whether to call on it being influenced by how many cars it has in its network worldwide, or even nationally, as opposed to in a particular city.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

An approach that has a dramatically better chance at changing behavior and influencing society. They say, "this 'think small' attitude is driving entrepreneurs who may otherwise build the next Google or Microsoft to create something much less interesting instead." No 20,000 tech jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

An approach that has a dramatically better chance at changing behavior and influencing society. They say, "this 'think small' attitude is driving entrepreneurs who may otherwise build the next Google or Microsoft to create something much less interesting instead." No 20,000 tech jobs.

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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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Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? He is the author of many books, including the best-selling Power and Influence and newly-released The Critical First Years of Your Professional Life. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, three-time mayor of New York City, was fired from Salomon Brothers. Anyone can take a dive. Perhaps so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. All eyes are on Twitter, with last night’s announcement that it has filed an S-1 in order to go public.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. Venture capitalists help entrepreneurs to scale their companies for an IPO or acquisition by another company. They are disciplined (ruthless) in jettisoning those that may not be on track to scale and win.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S., Revenues were indeed growing rapidly, but only because Blue Apron’s marketing spend was growing even more rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

I taught the first masters course on technological entrepreneurship in Israel at the Technion in 1987, 15 years after Israel’s first tech IPO on NASDAQ and when the entrepreneurial revolution in Israel was well underway. In every entrepreneurship hotspot, there are important connectors and influencers who may not be entrepreneurs themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 Israeli entrepreneurs are influenced by the success stories of their past. What was once the story of ICQ’s $287 million exit to AOL is now the story of MobileEye’s NYSE IPO and $12 billion market capitalization. billion, compared to just $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s also possible that members of Congress use their influence to benefit the firms in which they invest. Thus, companies that have congressional stockholders no longer need to spend as much money on lobbying to influence opinion.

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