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- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
that benefits from knowledge spillovers explain why firms in an industry cluster in specific geographical areas—think Silicon Valley. In the advertising industry, however, knowledge spillovers within the industry are not as important as... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek angel financing. The Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
this same type of tension at Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley technology giant. HP is famous for its values, known as the "HP Way." Employees saw the actions of former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2001-2002, including large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
inspiring stories from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley, the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people’s potential. Unleashed... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
referenced for years after the final presentation, and hopefully mine will be too. It might be less important than the work experience I was picking up, but I had always wanted to experience the Silicon Valley-style startup perks and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
deal with fraud and debt. Working on payments is a critical function, and any bugs or badly-written code hits the bottom-line. I’m fortunate to work with some of the best engineers in Silicon Valley. When did you first become interested... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial internet. Firsthand... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511065-PDF-ENG Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman, and Evan W. RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 811-077 In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Michael Maples
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to celebrate Culture Shifters and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
centers like New York to entrepreneurial centers like Silicon Valley and Boston," he explains. "In addition to providing access to information about investments and invitations to join syndicates, firms with broad, far-reaching... View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. As for Latin America, in addition to the new Center in Buenos Aires, according to Stevenson, there is also a satellite office in Rio de Janeiro and may soon be one in Mexico. "Our purpose with the Center... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
by taking the plunge we are going to show others and to help build the sector in such a way that more mainstream capital will come in.’” “In Silicon Valley terms,” says Michael Chu, “we need the people who were investing in Intel before... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the trouble began in Silicon Valley and spread from there. Everybody was going to get rich! And that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government thought like a View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
may be able to settle in less-expensive regions and use crowdsourcing software and other platforms to stay on top while giving employees a better quality of life by allowing them to live in areas with lower-priced housing, Kerr says. “The craziness that says ‘I must be... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
"I would not highlight the technology for the sake of technology," he cautioned. "Most VCs in Silicon Valley are enamored with technology. But at the end of the day, they really don't give a damn about it. They are more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
original notion. Most important, they say, although creativity may seem most prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it can be learned and managed in every kind of organization. Of particular interest in Leonard and Swap's... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details