Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot. Despite the check’s warning that something was amiss, managers decided to push forward anyway. But when 11:05 arrived, nothing happened.

Crisis 11

Crisis IPO Film How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

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. Their products are early stage, which means daily frustrations as they run through successive iterations.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. 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. Insight Center.

IPO 8

IPO Succession Technology Software 8

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. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 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 30, 2016

Amazon, for example, has learned that same-day delivery could increase revenues significantly, and it is also aware that new insurgent start-ups such as Instacart and WunWun are focusing on the instant delivery of certain products, so it has invested in its own delivery fleet, drone technology and more. “It is big.”

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. No 20,000 tech jobs. The formula worked.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Even when startups have great products and customer interest, they struggle with long-term growth. But as a venture scales and becomes more complex , more operational and commercial sophistication is required to manage it. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. 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.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. Warehouse automation systems are big and complicated; if they don’t work, you’re worse off than before since it becomes almost impossible to ship product. Their ability to execute. Forecasting acumen.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mezzanine Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” When a data breach happens, there is nothing worse than trying to figure out how to manage the crisis on the fly as it is still happening. 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.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. And in short order, the company achieved consistent double-digit sales growth — and a successful IPO.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

In Africa’s technology start-up scene, one of the most difficult challenges is attracting and retaining talent. With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

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. Indeed, many would-be entrepreneurs who are drawn by the romantic vision of developing a snazzy new app or product pooh-pooh selling as beneath their dignity.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011.

Engineering 9

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Where traditional business models sell products and/or services, matchmaking models sell reduced transaction costs. Choice One means going it alone to build product and find buyers. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. Insight Center.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. First, why is it a sector?

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

But the reality for entrepreneurs outside of the established startup meccas is a difficult one: if you start a technology business somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay area, New York, or Boston, you’re stacking the deck against yourself. It’s time spent not building product. Not hiring new employees.

IPO 9

IPO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. What about a novel technology partnership?

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

His money would allow her to pursue a new, perhaps more comfortable, growth strategy, directly managing 10 new centers instead of franchising them as she'd done with 11 of the 12 existing locations. Why would an IPO be so bad? She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. Herzlinger is the Nancy R.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13