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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
move large organizations—in this case, governments. —Eileen Rudden (MBA 1976) A recent fave is The Surrender Experiment, by Michael Singer. Unlike the bold and brash Silicon Valley founder profile, this is the story of a ponytailed,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Republic, eager to find more space in what the World Bank estimates to be a $1.2 trillion global credit gap for small to medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets. Success outside Nigeria, notes Kehinde, would send a powerful signal that innovation isn’t wholly... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
Working for a Faster, Safer Internet
immersion programs, where they would take students to different parts of the world to expose them to doing business in China or Israel or India. And for the first time, they were doing one to Silicon Valley. All these people that I had... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Finish What You Start-up
Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) is cofounder and CMO of the popular online ratings website Angie’s List. In this interview she reflects on the challenges––and advantages––of starting her company away from Silicon Valley: “Don't take yourself too... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
government. “When I was still at McKinsey,” he recalls, “I moved to Silicon Valley in 2000 at the height of the Internet bubble, where I saw all the beautiful excesses of irrational exuberance. Yes, it was a bubble, but it was very fun!... View Details
- 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
randomness” that says where you are born should dictate the opportunities and access you’re going to have in your life. And so she has chased down entrepreneur fellowships in college as she moved through UNC and graduated with high honors. She then found herself a job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and professional fulfillment. The book includes thought-provoking questions for reflection to help readers make a similar transformation. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (MBA 1998) (Spiegel & Grau) In 2015 Ellen Pao sued a powerhouse View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
drawings," says Lawson, who worked on a prototype for the product and a business plan as part of a field study with Associate Professor David M. Upton. She then spent five months lining up venture capital backing in Silicon Valley. "I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
“As a nonprofit, I think we’d be in fifty schools in Silicon Valley versus fifty thousand schools across the country,” he said. WEBSE efforts are paying off. Austin reports that they are connecting donors and nonprofits more effectively,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
already done to advance a global agenda in the MBA Program. Beginning in 1996, HBS has opened six research centers that today facilitate faculty research in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Silicon Valley and provide the springboard for... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
the early days in what—thanks to him and his colleagues—became Silicon Valley. As Johnson describes it, he and his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954) formed their venture capital firm in 1962 and drove around the Santa Clara (now Silicon)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Inventions at Georgia Tech’s ATDC incubator, with a mission to commercialize a set of scientific breakthroughs for improving silicon photovoltaics. Through his Freeing Energy Project, Nussey is writing a book to help people outside the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
business. HBS now supports re-search offices in Silicon Valley, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and Mumbai, and the School produces about seventy international cases and research projects each year. Working in international... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by... View Details