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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
consider to be a classic innovation community. The same way we think of Silicon Valley now, or maybe Detroit in the 1920s with the automobile industry. Okay, there's all these musicians, there's all this music. It's in the air. New... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
include essays from scholars at institutions such as HBS, Stanford, and MIT, as well as from senior managers at Intel, IBM, and Mercer Management Consulting. Drawing on lessons from leading companies of the information age, including View Details
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site
obligation to do that,” he noted. Prince cofounded Cloudflare in 2009 with classmate and current COO Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009). You can listen to the two discuss how they created the company after meeting at HBS in this recent episode of Skydeck. Zatlyn also discussed... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
games, and even songs.” Those in the photo, left to right: Bob Bosler (says Kuehn) or Mel Horwitch (says Barry), Tom Spanier (holding a decision-tree spoof), Daniels, Karen Green, Williams, Zschau, Ray Pousaz (says Kuehn), Bill Ehrhart, Ats Miyawaki, and Jim Eversmann.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
require lifelong care; and at about the same time, Tuchman sold his company for a profit. “Those events really shaped the way I invest,” he says. Amid the dot-com boom, when “people were doing a lot of really dumb things with money in View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
pitch their business plans at the Springboard 2000 New England venture-capital forum. Organizers of Springboard 2000, which is a series of events that debuted with sessions in Silicon Valley and Virginia, have an ambitious goal. "We want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
bakery cranks out cookies—New York now holds a demonstrable lead over Silicon Valley in terms of fintech investment in the United States. According to CB Insights, a New York startup that uses algorithms to collect and analyze data on... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during the 2009 View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
others—that he finds in northern Virginia and Washington DC. Because the area is not as tech-focused or as awash in VC funding as Silicon Valley, he said, “Our entrepreneurs have to be scrappier.” Ramos, who grew up in Drexel Hill,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
Trust, peeks behind the curtains of Silicon Valley’s tech culture and the fight to the top of the food chain—a story told through lens of a Taiwanese-American family, the Huangs. It’s an unblinking look at some of the Valley’s foibles,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
host for January's WesTrek, a recruiting and networking event in Silicon Valley attended by almost 250 HBS students. In the global realm, our new Asia Pacific research office, due to open this fall in Hong Kong, will provide a unique... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and rolling blackouts, so Dawe... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, VC: An American History shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. Author Tom Nicholas tells the riveting story of how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti