PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Despite another quarterly earnings miss announced Wednesday (May 23), Lowe’s shares got a 9 percent bump mid-week after poaching JCPenney CEO Marvin Ellison on Tuesday, a move that garnered support from Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP. Zulily was one of those ventures, bought by QVC in 2015 for $2.9

Leadership 100

Leadership Retail Groups Analytics 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006.

Google 76

Google Software Innovation Company 76

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Summary: Another victim to financial woes and a leveraged buyout (by Bain Capital in 2010), Gymboree filed for Chapter 11 protection in June 2017. However, new leadership has recently claimed that HHGregg will make a comeback with a revamped website and smaller physical footprint. Date: June 2017. Date: April 2017. Date: March 2017.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

Fraud 78

Fraud Las Vegas Company Video 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Innovation Company Technology 78

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

Omaha 78

Omaha Company Capital Management 78

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

As the company’s war chest dwindled toward the end of 2018, it could not secure extra capital to continue financing operation — largely because investors had tired on the structural and competitive problems outlined above. Founded: 2006. Magazine, and the company picked up $40M in VC capital from Index Ventures.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78