The Center For Leadership Studies
JUNE 1, 2022
Technology and Coaching. One response I received included the following and, upon further review and reflection, I was struck by how accurate I found these comments to be: “Technology is struggling to define itself.”. Probably the short answer to why there is such abundant supply!) We (CLS) took 15 people to ATD this year.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
In light of Snap’s IPO , there has been an immense amount of speculation about the long-term viability of the company’s strategy. A close look at the core ideas of technology strategy suggests that beneath the sound and the fury lies a set of fundamental principles that can guide leaders in making smart choices.
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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. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 9, 2014
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. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
A Short History of Dell. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal. The company must identify some assets from which it can squeeze more cash, in order to improve its short-term position.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 12, 2011
For HBR's April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. In short, your inner voice shouldn't berate you any more than your outer voice would address a hardworking employee. Checkbox 4: Are you being "Macromyopic" and overdramatizing the short-term impact of the mistake?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. And of the remarkable tech IPO class of 1986, which included Adobe, EMC, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, Oracle has been the best performer.
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