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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
due north and landed in Stockholm, where they made headlines in the local paper after spending their days learning about high-tech opportunities and visiting Ericsson. Meanwhile, several hundred of their classmates were in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
require lifelong care; and at about the same time, Tuchman sold his company for a profit. “Those events really shaped the way I invest,” he says. Amid the dot-com boom, when “people were doing a lot of really dumb things with money in 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
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, a 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
IXP Heads to Haiti, Points Beyond
Rwanda, Silicon Valley (two), South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam. A student-led IXP to Haiti, on the one-year anniversary of that country’s devastating earthquake, will partner students with NGOs to assist in ongoing relief efforts and... View Details
Keywords: IXP
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
Spar, adding dryly, "Ayn Rand is alive and well and living in Silicon Valley." These prognosticators, from Spar's perspective, ignore the fact that there are precedents — technological breakthroughs in the course of history that were, for... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
acknowledges. Some countries lack the necessary institutional structures. And even the startup hubs—Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, and Istanbul—lack one element that has made Silicon Valley such a success: a culture of failure. “Successful... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
The name William K. Bowes Jr. (MBA 1952) is synonymous with the development of venture capital in America and the rise of Silicon Valley. As a founder of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in 1981, the late HBS alum launched a long list of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of venture-backed companies among its... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Management. Harris approached the three decades after HBS as if he were tackling case studies in entrepreneurship. From executive positions at utility companies and owning a car dealership, to launching a Silicon Valley startup, each of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
skills. After working as a consultant at PA Consulting Services, Ltd., and APM, he joined Genentech in 1992, where he worked for nine years before leaving to launch his own marketing consulting firm, helping biotech start-ups get established. But with View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Help in the Vicinity
African-American executives in Silicon Valley. "Most executives tend to hire, recruit, and work around people who are like them," he said. "I don't think you necessarily have to have the same color skin. In fact, I know you don't. But you... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC), and the California Research Center (CRC). The gathering took place at the Four Seasons View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms. "But a higher priority was my girlfriend, Ann, who had just dumped me." While his initial advances into the VC world were thwarted, the move paid off romantically when... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during the 2009 View Details