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28 Sep 2023
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What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

Lazarow. “Founders should find an approach that works for them, aligns incentives, allows people’s voices to be heard and helps everyone be the best they can be every day.” READ MORE LISTEN: Lazarow discuss how entrepreneurs and ecosystems across the globe are... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

World Former Dunkin’ CEO Robert Rosenberg (MBA 1963) on the mindset, the master plans—and the mistakes—that turned a local business into a global icon Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment” What can Silicon View Details

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About - Global

View More Facts Silicon Valley Mid-US Montevideo Paris Istanbul Mumbai São Paulo Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Mexico City Dubai Singapore Cairo Tel-Aviv Johannesburg Lagos Nairobi Eighteen global locations help... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Preparing Global Leaders

to offer need-based scholarships that encourage a diversity of thought in the classroom. The support that alumni and friends provide plays an essential role in HBS’s efforts to deepen the worldview of all members of its community. Global Outposts Expand HBS’s... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

disrupting the tech world’s status quo. A Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has been pioneering new technology for more than two decades, Lambert recently accepted the challenge of running a company... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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California - Global

United States California – Silicon Valley Established in 1997, the California Research Center (CRC) enriches the intellectual activities of HBS faculty and fortifies the connection between the Boston campus... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Valley Michelle Cao 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in... View Details

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

product, the company was acquired by RIM, the company behind BlackBerry, in 2002. But that’s not why he tells the story to the fledgling entrepreneurs he mentors through TiE Seattle, a regional chapter of the global nonprofit The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), which began... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Caregiving Crisis Hurting Firm Profitability, Employee Productivity HBS 16 Jan 2019 | HBS Newsroom Why Silicon Valley needs more visas Henrique Dubugras 13 Jan 2019 | TechCrunch Red tape, rhetoric and the... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

specialists—an "operating team" that is an order of magnitude larger than that of any other VC firm. Furthermore, the operating team aims to not only assist a16z portfolio companies, but also to be broadly helpful to all parties in the View Details

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Finding Talent Opportunities

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 MAR 2025 For decades, WesTrek has been the flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Latin American Studies, March 25, 2025. Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours By: Jung Koo Kang , Krishna G. Palepu , Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research This case examines... View Details

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cluster (2012) Miami, Florida Marine Transportation Cluster (2012) South Carolina Automotive Sector (2012) Tennessee Music Cluster (2012) California Solar Energy (2011) Silicon Valley (California)... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI Mark Roberge January 2026 J 3.0 Launch Lab/Capstone 1 Alan MacCormack , Russell J Wilcox January 2026... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

investor and CEO of Veritas Investments to his HBS experience. “I saw opportunities for growing the business but wasn’t sure how to capitalize on them,” says Au who purchased his first building in Silicon View Details

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

unwilling to upgrade the team if necessary, we have a conversation about the willingness to hire new team members. We also look at location. It is very easy to hire good people in Silicon Valley and in the... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

11 Jan 2021
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Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense

cohort on campus in the fall of 2015, he went to Silicon Valley to raise funds for Shield AI. The Tsengs and a third cofounder, Andrew Reiter, pitched to 30 investors. All 30 said no, with one suggesting... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 13 Mar 2025... View Details

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