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- 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
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Silicon Valley software developers and technological innovations such as autonomous vehicles, aggressive marketing strategies, and cutthroat poaching practices—all of which forced number three competitor Sidecar out by January... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main goals—improved morale among researchers who like knowing their technology is being used, improved relationships with the venture capital community... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
Apple has done over the last decade. They formerly were heavy users of commodity products, often made by competitors. But they have shifted to designing more and more of their own microprocessors and ancillary silicon chips as well as... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
was a seminal event in the growth of Silicon Valley. CB: The effects of the ensuing competition on modules were better designs and lower prices. Customers were eager to buy the new plug-compatible, non-IBM components. This demand, in... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
challenges of this experience have been beyond anything I could have imagined." Just as his work straddles two industries, Verba's lifestyle spans two cities. "I live in San Francisco," he notes, "but I spend half my week in Los Angeles. The company is split between... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
DOWNLOAD Flighty “It’s a premium app for frequent-fliers that gives you the fastest, most granular data on your flights. I jet between meetings in NYC and SF a few times a month, so Flighty is my welcome wingman!” —Alex Taussig (MBA 2009), partner at Lightspeed in... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When the Internet arrived, he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mark Roberge Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Entrepreneurial Management Spring... View Details
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Departments | Employment
occur, with the support of the School's network of Global Research Centers in certain key regions: Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, India, Japan, Latin America, and Silicon Valley. Global Initiative is responsible for the oversight,... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
wrong choices. This case examines a decision made by IBM in its semiconductor process technology strategy: a material to use as a dielectric insulator in its leading edge silicon chip technology. While at the time of the decision it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
variety and complexity as a region. HBS professor Lynda M. Applegate moderated “Asia’s Silicon Valleys,” a panel that featured high-tech executives from Taiwan, Korea, India, Japan, and Singapore. This range of countries underscored the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
came to be known as Silicon Valley. "In those days, the West Coast wasn't nearly the money center it is now," he says. "Entrepreneurs there wanted East Coast money and involvement. To fulfill both those needs, I flew to California three... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/806101-PDF-ENG PunchTab, Inc. Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-033 PunchTab was a Silicon Valley start-up, founded in 2011, that was developing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
"If you are a rock- star Internet guru who has founded a company and needs to make more money, it would be much more efficient to use crowdfunding than calling 10 of your friends in Silicon Valley." Such a result would likely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Most of the best businesses in Silicon Valley started with a very simple concept and extended into adjacent market segments as well as into global markets. Accel recently closed its second Chinese fund, this one for $510 million,... View Details