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12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

I’m Gaurav Bhogale, from the HBS class of 2021. While I grew up in Mumbai, before HBS I spent 8 years at Google in San Francisco and Sydney, helping drive product engagement and growth for apps like Google Maps, Search and Gmail. It was the summer of 2018 in San... View Details

25 Mar 2020
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Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap

The last weekend in February marked the African-American Student Union’s 47th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference and the first-ever Black Tech Masters Series and Black New Venture Competition. What started as an independent project,... View Details

17 Apr 2025
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From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development When I decided to attend Harvard Business School (HBS), I knew I was ready to transition from strategy roles into the dynamic world of product development in the... View Details

04 Aug 2014
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Tech Companies Take Notice Of The Importance Of Marketing

03 Feb 2024
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Global Business: Tech Earnings Were High, But Not Enough

23 Mar 2018
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Dropbox shares surge in biggest tech debut since Snap

07 Oct 2016
News

The Real Problem Facing Women- and Minority-Owned Tech Startups

16 Jun 2021
News

Lina Khan, Big Tech Skeptic, Named FTC Chair Mere Hours after Confirmation

January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
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Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War

By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh

By 2020, Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, had transformed the small telephone switch manufacturer he founded in 1987 into a $120 billion telecommunications company poised to lead the lucrative rollout of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. However, an emerging... View Details

Keywords: International Strategy; Government And Business; Digital Infrastructure; Political Risk; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; China; United States

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20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

infrastructure—e.g., low carbon cement, green fertilizers, ocean alkalinity enhancement. How do you see your current role and/or company having an impact on climate change? For novel climate tech startups, it is incredibly challenging to... View Details

August 2021
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Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar... View Details

Keywords: Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Cryptocurrency; Ethical Decision Making; Emotions; Growth and Development Strategy; Ethics; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Loss; Change Management; Relationships

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May–June 2024
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Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez

Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career

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2023
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Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez

Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details

Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills

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26 Jan 2009
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How Can Web Tech Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?

30 Oct 2023
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For tech workers, the M–F office grind is dead

09 Sep 2019
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How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash

17 Mar 2022

HBS College Programs Drop-In Office Hours at Georgia Tech

Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management Program) as well as the 2+2 deferred... View Details