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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
Silicon Valley companies before his accession to his current post. Slayton sees himself as an "implementer" of other people's good ideas; his value, he believes, lies in his drive to make things happen, willingness to make decisions when... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
There is electricity in the air at 7:00 a.m. at Il Fornaio, Palo Alto's hottest breakfast spot. The cappuccino maker runs nonstop, the energetic waitstaff hustles to and from the kitchen, a steady stream of Silicon Valley celebs walk in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
Silicon Valley’s quintessential “garage to riches” enterprise. Perhaps her biggest move has been HP’s 2002 merger with Compaq, the largest such marriage in high-tech history. Acknowledging the nay-saying and controversy that accompanied... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
can see it-- if you look at the roots of technology, a lot of the commercial success and just waves of productivity that emerged from technology, all were centered around the formation of communities. And if you look at the example of the Homebrew Computer Club-- which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two passions with the debut of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
on-the-ground partner organizations to assist in ongoing relief efforts. Additional IXP destinations for 2011 include Rwanda, Brazil, China, Vietnam, India, Silicon Valley, South Africa, and Vietnam. (The Bulletin went along on an IXP to... 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
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
dinners were well-attended networking events that attracted many luminaries in Silicon Valley and helped raise the profile of HBS in the Silicon Valley. Due to COVID, we shifted to an all-virtual model to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
story. Mike Cassidy (MBA ’91) alone has four. Since graduating, he has launched and sold four tech companies, earning him the sobriquet “Start-Up King of Silicon Valley” (see article). His advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “Don’t hesitate... 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Project Runway
Stacey Estrella (MBA ’93), a corporate communications executive at a Silicon Valley software firm, started sewing for fun just two years ago. But her beautifully crafted dresses and suits helped her beat out thousands of other hopefuls to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore or Hong Kong before pursuing his entrepreneurial dream in... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
McKinsey & Company in Silicon Valley. "I am excited to be at an innovative organization in the heart of the new economy," Bolick says of his next assignment. His long-term career aspirations center on starting his own company, with... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in high tech in View Details