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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
the largest player in this industry is still pretty small,” says Malkina. “The biggest thing to figure out is how we can grow at or below our optimal customer acquisition cost at a much greater scale. We have the cash to invest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
tech, but I have a pencil and cross it off.” Along the way, Joyner has collected objects from 1945 to the present. The American artists who comprise her earliest acquisitions were “all mightily overlooked,” she notes. “They were pioneers... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
consideration, making it difficult to see the sort of 5X returns that make venture capitalists smile. Exit by acquisition doesn’t always work, either, if the acquirer is a big-ag behemoth with competing interests. With all these factors... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of far fewer resources in terms of staff, dollars, and especially time." The changing mix of employees and the fluid and up-tempo nature of decision-making for ACOG's project- and deadline-oriented mandate also differ greatly from the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
concludes: Support employees’ progress in their work every day. Set clear and meaningful goals for them; provide direct help, versus hindrance; offer adequate resources and time; respond to successes and failures by drawing on the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
additional costs, we don't look at what we've gained from it. AW: Throughout your career, you thought about growth mostly through acquisitions and mergers, some very successful, some thwarted repeatedly. Why did you pursue this strategy?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting in 1979, China began to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for searchers, View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
be a competitive, winner-take-all market? If so, then scaling quickly becomes important. Assuming Saga feels ready, and that now is the time in which to scale quickly, they should consider building the resources to have a portfolio of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
opportunity to grow and engage its user base by tapping into data and analytics and could add value to Nix in the eyes of prospective acquirers. Should Nix stay the analog course, make the transition to digital, or split limited resources... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Fieldglass, CrowdTwist, Veracode, and Insurance.com. In 2000, StarVest was a lead investor in NetSuite, when the firm had just $100,000 in revenues; Farrington served on the company’s board from NetSuite’s IPO in 2007 leading up to its $9.4 billion View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
monetary loosening since August 2007 — the steep cuts in the federal funds and discount rates, the various auction and lending “facilities,” the underwriting of JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns, and, most recently, the shift to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Harden worked on the acquisition and creation of a number of media brands, including Hello Sunshine. “Reese has this incredible ability to step back and ask a question that shifts my thinking,” Harden says. “We’ve come to consider... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance