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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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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

cover. The data is filterable by employer name, type of job, and job location, catching the differences between software engineers in Silicon Valley and Miami. This data comes from visa-holding employees,... View Details

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

Former Theranos employees began testifying this week against Elizabeth Holmes, the once-celebrated biotech’s founder and CEO, in a criminal trial that has Silicon Valley worried. In opening statements last... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and other companies in View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Harvard spent a winter break week in New York exploring new ventures in fashion, food, and fine arts, and co-led four similar winter break trips to Silicon Valley . Eisenmann also created the MBA electives... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in... View Details

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

practitioners of innovation and creativity. Given their importance for global economic health and progress, the questions are worth pondering. One highly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur will ask... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as... View Details

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Ellen Desmarais | About

HBP’s continuing commitment to DEI. In addition to her career with established brands, Ellen has also worked with Silicon Valley startups as an executive and an advisor. She began her career in marketing and... View Details

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

lumping them all together. That said, the success of the Silicon Valley community and the massive wealth that some people have accumulated have caught the eye of India. And as in most things in life, timing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2021
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The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

global community. Meanwhile, I am spending my deferred period in the Silicon Valley at VMware where I am focused on improving and scaling their SaaS & Subscription business. I am excited for the Harvard... View Details

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Venture Capital & Private Equity Club Annual Conference Attend an Immersion Field Course (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley. SPRING Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital Journey Scaling Technology Ventures... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

research and prep for outreach. Attend an Immersion Field Course (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley SPRING Take EC Courses to build startup skills and experience: Scaling Tech Ventures... View Details

27 Mar 2017
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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

informal, I connected with and the dozens of one-on-one meetings with HBS professors that generated insights that informed the future of the company. Cash: The joke in Silicon Valley is that in valuing a... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 Why Silicon Valley needs more visas Henrique Dubugras 13 Jan 2019 | TechCrunch Red tape, rhetoric and the race for global talent Lisa... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving... View Details

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Society; and George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Five Technologies That Will Change the World, with Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1990), MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, and The View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

prospective investors if they decide to launch another new venture. In many parts of the world, failed founders are stigmatized, but fortunately, in Silicon Valley and some other startup ecosystems,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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