Career Innovation IPO 
Terry Starbucker
JANUARY 13, 2013
In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. 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 the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.
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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. Social innovation. Employee incentives. Social investment.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 26, 2012
I talked recently with David Galenson , an economist at the University of Chicago who began studying prices at art auctions — an exploration that drove him to understand the nature of creativity over the course of one's career. Are you a conceptual innovator or an experimentalist? How has that shaped your career?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 5, 2011
As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 12, 2017
Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. The When I Grow Up spot tapped into growing societal angst over the cubicle careers on offer in mainstream professional life and was the only commercial named to Time Magazine’s Best of TV list for that year. At Uncubed, we’re certainly seeing the shift in our clients.
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