Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? Be open to alternatives, even if they’re not directly related to your current career path. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, three-time mayor of New York City, was fired from Salomon Brothers. Anna Wintour, before becoming editor of Vogue, was fired from Harper’s Bazaar.

Gilbert 130

Gilbert Public Relations IPO Handbook 130

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

Jacobs has founded seven billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar businesses, completed approximately 500 M&A transactions, and raised 30 billion dollars of debt and equity capital, including three IPOs. He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Leadership Self-aware IPO 73

QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi ’s book “ The High Performance Entrepreneur ” has shaped up my entrepreneurial thinking to a very large extent.

Process 82

Process IPO Directory Creativity 82

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

participation in decision making and autonomy, along with supervisory career support (information, advice, and encouragement). “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

Company 53

Company IPO Ethics Magazine 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

. “Executive presence” was mentioned in several reviews as an improvement area, but without any specifics, Tom had no idea what the real issue was and how damaging it could be to his career. Often these pandas live on for years, seemingly innocent, but ultimately gnaw at the career trajectory of otherwise talented leaders.

Career 15

Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. A quarter of first-time venture-backed firms are acquired for at least $50 million or file for an IPO.

Venture Capitalist 20

Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world.

Career 10

Career Company IPO Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. There is a better way.

Crisis 15

Crisis IPO Film How To 15

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. How has that shaped your career? Are you a conceptual innovator or an experimentalist?

IPO 15

IPO Creativity Comparison Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. The Thiel Foundation president points out that “the safe career track is totally broken.” This is true. since 2000.

Development 12

Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. Very quickly, common concerns bubbled up.

Management 15

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

They wanted to know what my plans were for IPO. They are the legacy of China's one child policy, sometimes referred to as the "six pocket" generation, since they grew up with two parents and four grandparents (six pockets of money) focused on their educational and career success.

Engineering 11

Engineering IPO Real Estate Price 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.”

Quinn 14

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

Execution 8

Execution IPO CFO Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

Execution 8

Execution IPO CFO Diversity 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.

Venture Capitalist 22

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

.” He went on to describe talent management as especially important because of the uncommonly large jobs and aggressive targets that AB InBev gives its employees very early in their careers. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Company IPO Talent Management 15

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 one context or another, you've likely failed, too. You may have chosen to frame it some other way ("experience," "lessons learned," etc.), but it was failure. First, welcome to the club. We've all been there.

Short-term 16

Short-term Long-term IPO Middle Management 16

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.

EPS 14

EPS Innovation Incentives Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I'm all for taking the time to meet interesting new people (that's why I make a point to go to conferences like Renaissance Weekend. The guy doesn't know anybody?

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist IPO Career Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

Banking 8

Banking Tversky Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

CTO 14

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

How about the fact that policymakers from innovation-starved countries (where failure in a new venture still brings career ruin and even shame on your family) have spotted it, and are trying to duplicate the same conditions in their economies? But we also bet it isn't your usual perspective on the world of VCs and IPO lawyers.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

The time he had so far spent on CyGaNet was time others had spent in college auditoria and bars, so in a way he was still at the start of his career. On top of that, Digitas, where he was CEO, had just raised $223 million through its IPO in March of 2000, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation.

Crisis 12

Crisis Entrepreneur Business Model IPO 12

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.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

But as an engineer with young kids points out, when he''s able to hang out with his friends whose wives stay at home, "I think they probably have progressed more in their careers than I have in some ways. Sure, taking care of your kids is "providing." Part of it is psychological: I have to remind myself, I am not a second-class citizen.”.

Dunning 9

Dunning Kleiner Kaplan IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. Tech bloggers had jumped all over the story; many speculated that SimplePay had begun to slow its hiring and scrimp on security investments in an effort to spiff up its balance sheet for a potential IPO. ” Jake asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study Crisis IPO CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The company started as a single store, but about a decade later it was a national chain on the heels of filing an IPO. It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Several years ago I sat down with the CEO of a fast-growing retail business. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I've spent the past month doing pitchbooks for a pulp-and-paper IPO that's never going to happen," Anthony said. He had wooed them with assurances that they would be working on the most important mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs in the world, and that they would quickly rise to the director level. You were such a great sales guy.".

Case Study 8

Case Study Diversity Taylor Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

With limited exit opportunities via initial public offers ( IPOs ) and acquisitions, smart young people understand that stock options rarely bring a big payday. The tools used by Silicon Valley, London, and Paris to hire top talent — namely stock options — seldom work in Africa.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Entrepreneur Banking 8

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.

Price 101

Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

” 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. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Do you define your own standards of career excellence? If you are counting upon that Life Changing Event (an IPO, M&A, or that hot investment tip), you are not working towards plan achievement. Do you define your own standards of career excellence? You are wishing for statistically unlikely events.

Succession 18

Succession IPO Comparison Career 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Now, let's talk about meggings , and their even less fortunately named cousin, mantyhose. I'd say: yesterday's social media superstars turned out to be a little like today's meggings: fashionable mistakes many would rather pretend didn't really happen.

Media 9

Media Fashion IPO Brand 9