Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Founders may lack the skills and interest to lead those activities effectively — what they typically love is dreaming up and building products. While some of these new leaders from the outside are skilled at the former, they may have trouble navigating the turbulent transitions associated with the latter.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 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

JANUARY 12, 2015

In addition, native Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Weibo, and Momo are having some of the most successful IPOs in U.S. English’s importance in the early development of modern technology has cemented its global importance today. What if language barriers stood in the way of these technologies? I’m with him.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 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. Voltaire got the technology down pat but struggled with selling a product that enterprise customers were leery of. Sale is a big part of scale.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Open-book Marketing 8

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. Consider factors such as who has the best communication skills, prior experience with the media, authority in the company, and relationships with stakeholders.

Planning 9

Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions. Khosrowshahi must demonstrate how Uber’s repeatable business model generates profitable growth.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. Equally, investing in startups has its own skills. Let's start with the human side.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Before the company’s $155 billion IPO in 2014 — the largest initial public offering in history — he observed, “we want to help small businesses grow by solving their problems.” Needless to say, they can share success stories on Facebook. This study highlighted the essential co-creation of value.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Unlike other Chinese leaders we had met with, Ma was willing and eager to hire executives who had more skills and experience than he did in areas where he was less strong. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As I pointed out in my earlier post , the only funds that Apple ever raised on the public stock market was $97 million (about $274 million in today’s dollars) at its IPO in 1980. Let performance pay do its job of incentivizing employees to invest their skills and efforts in the innovation process. Employee incentives.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Both Singapore and Israel have liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

Hedge 8

Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Another area where the absence of a vibrant VC and corporate investment culture hurts promising startups in Europe is that, because realizing gains from an IPO on European exchanges is still difficult, a primary exit for entrepreneurs is to sell to U.S.-based Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 19, 2020

Nowhere is this dysfunctionality more evident than in migration, where the business community are largely unified in the challenges they face in attracting the highly-skilled talent they need from overseas. The report reveals that whilst nearly all alumni believe that highly skilled immigrants should be allowed to move to the U.S.

Consensus 80

Consensus Politics IPO Report 80