Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The record-breaking Facebook IPO proves a number of things. Launching "Platform" in 2007 enabled developers to build apps for the Facebook website. Attracting Zynga and other social game developers who could sell virtual goods arguably helps Facebook with another way to make money besides advertising revenue.

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IPO Advertising Content Course 13

CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

People often join a network because they’re inspired by its purpose, whether that’s to improve a community’s school lunch program or protect a sprawling wildlife preserve. But people stay for a very different reason: who is involved. Which means who is part of a network is just as important, if not more important, than why […].

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Strategy Succession Magazine IPO 123

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Development Real Estate 16

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. How should you interpret the viability of Snap’s strategy amid the many opinions? The conventional wisdom holds that every industry is being disrupted and all the rules have changed. a platform)?

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IPO Productivity Products Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.

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Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO.

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 14

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovation is key to sustainability. This inability to source deals from outside the four walls, and to do so quickly, is one of the main reasons why innovation in so many companies is stifled. By bringing multiple people with a new mindset in, you can kickstart innovation. Innovation is a team sport indeed.

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Consensus Long-term Venture Capitalist Due Diligence 423

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. He's brash, colorful, outspoken — in terms of his style, he personifies the sense of freedom and innovation that drives so many businesspeople today.

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IPO Wilde Brand CEO 20

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." million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Beijing-based telecom security company NQ Mobile has gone so far as to create a separate headquarters in Texas for its developed-market business, managed by an American co-CEO and entirely comprised of American employees.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 9

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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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? The only way out of this innovation gridlock is an expansion in founding team diversity. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives? What was my title?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? The only way out of this innovation gridlock is an expansion in founding team diversity. No 20,000 tech jobs. What gives? What was my title?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 21

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. We've found Facebook ads to be very effective when strategically combined with engagement, great content and innovative ways of storytelling, rather than treating them as a straight media buy.".

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Media 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Shortly before Facebook's turbulent IPO, GM announced that it was pulling its $10 million advertising budget from Facebook. We've found Facebook ads to be very effective when strategically combined with engagement, great content and innovative ways of storytelling, rather than treating them as a straight media buy.".

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Media 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 10

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. But even despite China’s impressive growth, it seems clear that English – not Mandarin – is and will remain the language of innovation. And the best tool of innovation? Collaboration.

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Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 14

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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Class Maturity IPO Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. An innovator? They even developed a method to involve employees in the details of ship design, a powerful example of their new emphasis on the vertical rather than the horizontal.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 15

Banking Strategy Film Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States. The third pillar for Amazon is developing a cadre of customer-oriented services (Amazon Prime, Subscribe & Save , one-day shipping, and so on) focused on encouraging people to increase the frequency of their purchases.

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Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. The number of startups that the algorithm scores as quality is high, but the likelihood of a successful IPO or acquisition hasn’t kept up.

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. The second reason VCs are becoming more interested in ICOs is because of the liquidity of cryptocurrencies.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

William Shockley contributes to the development of the first transistor while at Bell Labs in 1947. Their work focuses on innovative developments with silicon. or returns massive investments (look at Intel Stock since IPO), what do you do? William Shockley Unhappy at Bell. Shockley Semiconductor Consolidates Great People.

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Leadership IPO Letter Information Technology 260

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. This same socially shared educational/advisory capability can be seen in SAP’s carefully built developer community. What really makes them work? Think APIs and SDKs.

IPO 8

IPO Human Capital Insurance Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In 2016 blockchain companies raised $400 million from traditional venture investors and nearly $200 million through what we call initial coin offerings (ICO rather than IPO).

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Banking Dunning Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. In addition to driving business results you are making time to ensure each team and each individual are doing their own work of personal and professional development. You started a company.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 249