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- 28 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
Legendary venture capitalist and philanthropist Bill Bowes (MBA 1952) passed away on December 28. Bowes founded San Francisco’s US Venture Partners in 1981 and helped shape some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, including Sun... 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 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
were also important themes of a popular March 20 breakout session titled "The Silicon Valley Miracle." This panel discussion was led off by Gordon Moore, cofounder and chairman of Intel and one of the principal architects of the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
equally interested and perhaps equally inexperienced in high technology, are carrying such enthusiasm even further. Rather than wait for Silicon Valley to come to the School, two student organizations - the CMC (Communications, Media &... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
Silicon Valley. The Valley is unique, he says, because it is a magnet for intellectual talent (including graduates of Stanford, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship and venture capital), has a concentration of large companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts
of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung immigrated to the United States when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
Intel, the world's largest maker of microprocessors, is a legend in Silicon Valley for its creativity and no-frills management. Senior Vice President Leslie L. Vadasz (107th AMP), for instance, oversees corporate business development from... View Details
John E. Jonsson
Jonsson built Texas Instruments as a leader in transistor technology. He acquired a license for using the Bell silicon transistor patent, employed qualified personnel and started extensive research in this field, which resulted in many... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Amid the iconoclastic and frenetic glamour of Silicon Valley, Arthur Rock’s low-key eastern pragmatism might have seemed strangely out of place. But Rock, a Rochester, NY native who graduated from Syracuse with a degree in political... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
Studio The Rock Center’s New York office opened on December 1, 2015, in Midtown Manhattan, with plans to move to a permanent space in the heart of Silicon Alley in the spring. The 40-desk entrepreneurship community is open to all HBS... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
Peru, India, China, Boston, and Silicon Valley, you get a virtual “around the world” tour in just a few minutes, complete with photos and commentary. “Today we visit Accel-backed Mochi Media, sold yesterday for $80M to Shanda; has raised... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. Venture Partners, he helped launch a stellar list of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tackling the data dilemma
In 2008, Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) was among those the New York Times identified as Most Likely to Be First Female US President. After a foray into politics—a gubernatorial bid in California—Whitman became president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she is bringing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
silicon integrated circuit for which Silicon Valley is named and cofounder of Intel. Did you uncover similarities among these businessmen that may have foretold their future success? Although "foretelling"... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
have to be the end of economic opportunity in a community,” they write. “History has shown us, time and again, that real opportunity doesn’t require billions of dollars of investment or the backing of Silicon Valley or Boston. Successful... View Details
Keywords: New England
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details