Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We found that while people understood our vision, they worried about their careers and what would happen to their long-term health and investment programs.

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Dell''s fortunes have not reversed over the past six years, owing in part to the recession, but more fundamentally to the decline of the PC market. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. But our interviews with VCs suggest that this practice is becoming less common with the greater availability of capital in recent fundraising markets. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. economy’s future prospects. The study’s core point is simple. Insight Center.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

The smart money went along, with Groupon valued at $15-20 billion, according to some observers anticipating rich pickings in the IPO-to-come. Not long after that was published, on Friday, July 8, 2011, the Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled " Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats." But not so fast. billion slip away.

Business Model 15

Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Hearing “we’re just like X brand but we’re…” sets off warning signals about breakthrough ability and long-term viability. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. Branding Marketing Strategy' An -er position is a dangerous one to adopt. How – personality.

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

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. Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. So, why do these dangerous pandas go unaddressed for so long? Peer relationships.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

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

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But Ellison is of course chairman of that board (long-time chairman Jeff Henley will stay on as vice chairman). And while I’m certainly not the person to argue that short- or even medium-term shareholder returns are a perfect measure of corporate performance, I do think that what your stock does over 28 years has some meaning.

Company 8

Company Chief Technology Officer IPO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

Yet for how substantial the market is, there’s relatively little data on the decision making process of those who invest in early stage startups. The researchers couldn’t answer this directly, since these were still very early-stage companies and they didn’t have information about long-term performance.

Long-term 8

Long-term IPO Human Capital Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A detailed roadmap should outline how it will become autonomous in terms of revenues and/or access to central services.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. The $1 billion burn rate in China was reportedly holding up its IPO, not just its expansion in other parts of the world.

Network Economy 8

Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

It means instead of only having companies at the fat head , there are tens of thousands of smaller companies fulfilling demand along the long tail. 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? No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

It means instead of only having companies at the fat head , there are tens of thousands of smaller companies fulfilling demand along the long tail. 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? No 20,000 tech jobs.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

I'm not arguing for long, pointless, unstructured conversations with everyone you meet. 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

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Because the model relied on providing long-term loans, Eric asked questions about repayment and cultural bias. The student presenter acknowledged the risks and simply stated, "Well, we won''t know any of that for a long time. After some reflection, he jumped in with a set of questions. rubber trees take years to mature.".

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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. The CEO isn’t the only one likely to be scrutinized by the market.

IPO 8

IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. Aggressive-growth and family-controlled dual-class companies display higher long-term shareholder returns. So do some older, family-controlled firms, such as Ford Motor Co. stock exchanges.

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. The second reason VCs are becoming more interested in ICOs is because of the liquidity of cryptocurrencies.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Since the last financial crisis, many new regulations have been implemented to protect shareholders, increasing the pressure on management to meet earnings expectations by prioritizing short-term over long-term. For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high.

IPO 8

IPO Company Maturity Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Before long the Sachs family had put one-time office boy Weinberg in charge of bringing their enterprise back to health. But he was long-term self-interested. That may just be because some of the partnership ethos lived on nine years after the IPO, meaning that the firm is unlikely to do so well in the next financial crisis.

Hedge 13

Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 13

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. They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?) that aggregate sales in the U.S.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. And these often have to be significantly better than what’s on the market (in other words, breakthroughs) due to the high cost of R&D. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

If we’re to prevent the enthusiasm for entrepreneurial ecosystems from also fizzling out, we need to get a better grip on what the term really means. Well-known entrepreneurial hotspots such as Israel, Route 128, Silicon Valley, Austin, Iceland and others, had significant entrepreneurship long before there were courses in it.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

DNA genetic testing company 23andMe fell behind on its communications with the FDA, resulting in a temporary ban on marketing the company’s personal genetic screening services to the public. A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. It enables the product to function.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur IPO Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So far this year, the stock market has been anything but stable. I joined HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company, as the fourth employee and first salesperson in 2007. Seven years after that infamous day in 2008, we are a post-IPO company with a market cap of over $1 billion dollars. In the U.S., My answer is no.

Crisis 8

Crisis IPO Marketing Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Its IPO in 1999 was a sensation ; by autumn 2000 its market capitalization topped $65 billion and the ratio of its stock price to the next year’s projected earnings was a staggering 483. Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Alibaba, the Chinese internet titan that filed for an IPO in the U.S. last week, could be the largest tech IPO in history. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. The article, by J.

IPO 12

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 12