EBITDA, net income, revenues, users — the numbers do not and will not lie. After reviewing Facebook’s S-1 filing with the SEC, there is no justification for a $100 billion valuation. All we are told is about the company’s historic business leading up to December 31, 2011. Other than general ideas on how the company plans … Read more »
Maximizing shareholder value—a mantra made popular in 1976 by the most-cited academic business article of all time, Jensen and Meckling’s “Theory of the Firm”—is… Read more »
Sweeping and fundamental changes to online search are in full swing. Google announced on January 24, 2012, that it will begin collecting and sharing… Read more »
Unlike smaller countries that think globally from the beginning of a product’s life cycle, U.S companies typically consider global expansion only after achieving a… Read more »
Creative people can make enormous contributions to any organization, but are often difficult to motivate, manage, and channel. They resist authority. Their thought patterns… Read more »
Many organizations today spend a lot of time, resources and financial investment trying to understand the social landscape and engaging externally their customers and… Read more »
The champagne has popped and a new year has begun, but funding is tight, government regulations are more restrictive, and consumers still aren’t spending. This… Read more »
We all know we need it. We all instinctively recognize it. The challenge for businesses is to get it. To create that perfect intersection… Read more »
Omnivore Books in San Francisco looks like a traditional bookstore. Opened three years ago in a former butcher shop, the small, bright room is stocked… Read more »
There are a number of major “super trends” driving massive change in our world, with three of the most powerful being Globalization, Technology Accelerators… Read more »