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HBR » Investment Management
1w ago
Congratulations. You've successfully attracted venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1w ago
“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon’s profits before subtracting ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1w ago
Limited oversight, tons of money, and hype for days. What could go wrong ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1w ago
I love hearing about other people’s dreams. “Dreams,” as in: “this is what I always wanted to do with my life.” Tell me about your dream, and like Pavlov’s dogs, I begin to salivate. I almost can’t help it — encouraging people and their dreams makes me happy, and I am good at it. In ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1M ago
Research suggests you can-but only in some industries ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1M ago
Most spinouts flop. But Targacept flourished when its parent set it loose. Here’s how it beat the odds ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1M ago
The market for IPOs is still open, and Titrolyte’s new titanium extraction technology has blockbuster potential. Will a public offering yield fool’s gold for the founders—or the real thing ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
1M ago
Times change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating ..read more
HBR » Investment Management
2M ago
Large managerial enterprises have been the engines of growth and innovation in modern economies for more than a century. This essay lays out the logic ..read more