Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

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. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. Investors have perpetuated a compensation structure where VCs can generate significant personal income over their career, even when they make no money for their LPs. Finance Venture capital'

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 19

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. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. That’s just 2.1% of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014.

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EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

And then not just package it neatly, sell it cheap, and finance it cheaper — you're going to have co-create it with them, instill it in them, and imbibe it from them. Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. Dr Feelawesome, speaking live at the Megamall of the McFuture!!").

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