Investing 7 min read Free

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

Executive Summary Even though only 0.25% of companies receive venture financing, venture capital is an important source of financing that result in an outsized impact on the economy. Some studies estimate that 50% of U.S. IPOs are VC-backed and that these companies account for 20% of the U.
Strategy 3 min read Free

Do Great Companies Stay Great ?

Executive Summary The Credit Suisse research team is one of my favourites as they always publish interesting papers. In this paper, the authors wanted to look at the stickiness of corporate profitability. They found that good companies tend to remain good companies, poor companies tend to remain mediocre. They also
Strategy 2 min read Free

Learning from Family-Controlled Businesses

Executive Summary I was doing some research for work and I stumbled upon this article that we covered during one of my strategic management classes at McGill taught by Prof. Gregory Vit. Prof. Vit main research interests, and areas of expertise, is Contrarian and Conformist Strategy, so it is expected
Strategy 3 min read Free

Schumpeterian Profits and the Alchemist Fallacy

Executive Summary We live in an era of rapid technological changes, which some people call the “new economy.” The new economy is the result of the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to an economy where companies that are on the cutting edge of technology are the driving force of economic
Operations 4 min read Free

When Sales and Marketing Align: Impact on Performance

Executive Summary In this paper, the authors explore the impacts on performance from sales and marketing being aligned. One obvious fact is that without sales and marketing working to produce revenue, the business ceases to exist. Yet, conflicts between the two functions are to be expected given that salespeople wan
Strategy 3 min read Free

The Link Between Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

Executive Summary In this paper, the authors want to determine whether employee beliefs in a corporate purpose are associated with superior financial performance or not. They found that, at an aggregate level, purpose is not related to financial performance. However, a subset of firms from the dataset (high purpose/high
Product Management 3 min read Free

A Model to Identify Solutions to Legacy Systems Increasing Maintenance Costs

Executive Summary In this paper, the authors identify the characteristics of legacy systems and explore why they are costly to maintain and support. The authors define legacy systems as “a system that is business critical and demonstrates one or more of the following characteristics: old age, obsolete languages, poor if
Product Management 5 min read Free

Big Data for Big Business? A Taxonomy of Data-Driven Business Models used by Startups

Executive Summary In this paper, the authors suggest a taxonomy of business models used by startups that rely on data as a core resource for their business, which they define as data-driven business models (DDBMs). The end goal of these businesses is not simply to collect, store and analyze data,
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