Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2017
Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Businesses need to organize around long-term strategies for growth and partnership in a sustainable way. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns.
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. Many poor business decisions resulted in an accumulation of unsustainable toxic debt.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2014
billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Strategic leaders like Brian, who don’t hold positions of authority, operated in ways that were tailored to a less formal context.
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. The company tapped the brakes on marketing spend so that it could focus on operational issues associated with the opening of a new facility, and – sure enough – its customer count plummeted in turn.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2017
Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. competitiveness in terms of its digital economy and international data flows and thinking beyond traditional manufacturing and trade of physical goods and services. ” In many countries, several websites or digital companies are blocked.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.
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