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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
million, and earnings went from breakeven to $1.5 million after taxes. “The company was on really solid footing and growing rapidly,” says Rogers, paving the way for a $45 million IPO in 1981. Rogers and Cronk now had the cash and the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
University endowment’s investment choices and of venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
awards, including the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and a 2012 Gold Effie. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513032-PDF-ENG Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
back. The IPO raised $91 million and the stock price jumped 43 percent on the initial trading day. In a business in which people are so crucial to the equation, Marcelo has found no lack of prospective employees “starving for... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
story. That's self-propagating." A major challenge for entrepreneurs in Europe, said Hobermann, is "the publicity battle." Companies and individuals may be highlighted at first as success stories, but once the IPO comes,... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
someone on their IPO team who once worked at Baxter. Abbott people were in management, but, on average, it took them longer to get to the top, in part because they didn’t have as much prior general management experience. Are some managers... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
closed a $250 million IPO in March 2021, making it the only SPAC listed on the NYSE with an African American female CEO. In July 2021, the company announced it was taking concentrated solar power company, Heliogen, public in a $2 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
first investor.’ I told him I’d be right out.” ROI: “We invested in NetSuite in 2000, when the company had about $100,000 in revenues. I joined the board and was lead director from the company’s IPO in 2007 to its acquisition by Oracle in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
what it actuallytakes to build a business in a world that’s not always fair, predictable, or politically correct. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course) 3rd Edition by Joshua... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
agency-based predictions. The evidence does not confirm managerial discretion is being used to convey private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-014.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Blackstone Group's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
Business School Case 316-151 CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online The world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China’s CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Collusion in Markets with Syndication By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery, and Jordan M. Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Over that span, he had helped three of his portfolio companies through IPOs and helped Khosla Ventures raise its third fund, bringing the total outside capital raised by the group to more than $2.1 billion. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
little bit more venture and speed it up?" He said, "I could’ve raised more money and IPOed in two less years, but I would've done so at tremendously more risk." That's really what I'm talking about with this camel approach is, in the face... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
investors' initial reactions to the IPO, analyst coverage and affiliations with experienced venture capitalists and prominent underwriters combine to enhance the IPO firm's visibility and reduce uncertainty, thereby influencing its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
out to sell their company and its investment thesis to investors before. We need to help them articulate the answers to the questions, Why buy this stock? Why buy it now?” In 1999, Harris managed the execution of the IPO for UPS, the... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
have exceeded to date. More Help Required The 2012 JOBS Act reduced the regulatory burden for small businesses looking to raise equity in the public markets. It provided an "on-ramp" of up to five years for new IPOs to phase in certain... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
streamline regulations and approvals. Phu My Hung was funded by industrialists from Taiwan who were systems thinkers, long horizon investors, and nation builders. King Abdullah Economic City was funded by private investors and with proceeds from the largest View Details