Silicon - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

management. In addition, frequently used cases are often dated, reducing interest among today’s young management candidates for whom Silicon Valley is the gold standard. The most heavily used case among those I’ve authored is one I wrote... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

the culture of the Silicon Valley, which is a culture of believing in engineering as a way of solving consumer problems,” says Viceira. Millennials meet the robo-advisor That’s where millennials come in. This cohort is ideal for a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

Investors riding the wave of technology public offerings have been waiting for a powerhouse debut from Airbnb, which logged its 500 millionth customer booking in March. After all, the home-sharing giant isn’t your typical unicorn. Unlike some of its View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM, Digital Equipment, View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

international economy. It is appropriate that the conference took place in Silicon Valley. This all but unique confluence of ideas, research, financing, and human resources has served as a matrix in which venture capital has either... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

will be successful. Now, we rely on the actual market to tell us what will be successful before we hit commercialization. A good example is this boom we see in wearables and in hardware, which came about from Kickstarter when the Silicon... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

control. We're not just referring to the ousted CEOs who are contending for the highest S/E ratio (severance package/earnings losses during their tenure). In 1965, Intel's Gordon E. Moore astounded the world by asserting that the number of transistors on a View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

apply when these VCs attempt to make introductions that would help a start-up. Silicon Valley legend John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers may have the most valuable personal Rolodex in the world, but he still has only 24... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

important for regional development as well: "Given the many and mostly unsuccessful attempts to recreate Silicon Valley in various areas, understanding whether noncompetes play a role could be of help to policymakers," he adds.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511065-PDF-ENG Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman, and Evan W. RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 811-077 In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

engaging in "venture philanthropy," rangingfrom The Entrepreneurs' Foundation in Silicon Valley to New Profit, Inc. inBoston. "Now we want to go further and ask, 'How can we look atthe Social Capital Markets more... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

by expanding into new geographies, product categories, and distribution channels. They have also recently developed several strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley firms to expand into an array of digital products. However, after going... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

if your toilet blows up, you aren't going to wait two days for delivery for a part from (competitor) Amazon Prime. You need that part right now. You need it to be in stock, and you need somebody to help you understand what to do, what kind of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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