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- July 2024
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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may be accompanying shifts in the way they... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
insights for Cunningham to utilize. Recent partnerships with Applied Predictive Technologies have allowed McDonald’s to speed up its analytics, helping it make menu decisions more quickly. “It’s great to be able to just test and learn,”... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Wisdom, war stories, and what’s next for global business from former GE CEO Jeff Immelt Complete Table of Contents June 2021 Alumni Achievement Awards 2021 Recipients of the School’s highest honor talk about the challenges, decision... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason survey respondents consider ESG information in investment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
decision maker. It’s not possible to simply rubber stamp his vision for the city. But he has found the flexibility to insert himself in multiple committees focused on his chief concerns. Yes, as head of investments, he does speak to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of reviews, what is the optimal way to construct an average rating? We offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the health tech field that... View Details