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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Silicon Valley," says Koss. "We're in Toronto. I'm a mom. I have two kids." Yet they want this to be more than just another online lifestyle shop—they're hopeful they can build it into a very lucrative career, not only for themselves, but... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
only producing 240 million pounds a year. You would serve one customer.” That 50-ton-a-day mark is a real goal, says Lo, and the Dubai farm will be a big proof of concept. And while any company’s world-saving ambitions can resemble View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
"Paper," says the Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a smile. "What would we do without it?" Cook's appreciation for this low-tech, everyday commodity, despite his company's positioning in a high-tech, "paperless" market, suggests a key to... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
make introductions for the Silicon Valley leg. But Bradley will also travel up and down the East Coast to ask questions, listen, and think. “I treat everything as a research project because that’s what my career was,” he says simply. The... 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 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
pitch their business plans at the Springboard 2000 New England venture-capital forum. Organizers of Springboard 2000, which is a series of events that debuted with sessions in Silicon Valley and Virginia, have an ambitious goal. "We want... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industries—Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouse—are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
technology finance here in Silicon Valley or have moved on to different positions or industries, so I'm now one of the few CFOs in high tech with my level of experience." Throughout his career, Goldman has sought jobs that would allow him... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
On her first foray into Silicon Valley, Karen Edwards (MBA '90) didn't have much success finding the job she wanted: head of marketing at an Internet company. Told she didn't know enough about technology, Edwards persevered and finally... View Details
- 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 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
bakery cranks out cookies—New York now holds a demonstrable lead over Silicon Valley in terms of fintech investment in the United States. According to CB Insights, a New York startup that uses algorithms to collect and analyze data on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
noncompete clauses at some point in their careers, according to a 2016 US Treasury Department report. But across the country, efforts are now on the rise to eliminate noncompetes. Spurred by the belief that their unenforceability in California was key in the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
fast,” hyper-growth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. Help wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. Cascading miracles. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
including twenty years in Silicon Valley. At HBS, he became a close friend of classmate George W. Bush and later would serve as an important California fundraiser for Bush’s 2000 campaign. Riley (official presidential nickname: “T-Bone”)... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
others—that he finds in northern Virginia and Washington DC. Because the area is not as tech-focused or as awash in VC funding as Silicon Valley, he said, “Our entrepreneurs have to be scrappier.” Ramos, who grew up in Drexel Hill,... 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
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer