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companies on the West Coast. In the 1970s, the idea of an investment bank thriving outside of Wall Street was, as he puts it, “almost blasphemous.” Montgomery Securities became an integral part of the Silicon 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 View Details
- Profile
Ravi Belani
Ravi Belani grew up in Cupertino, California where he witnessed the town’s transformation from “what used to be orchards into what is now Silicon Valley.” His birthplace proved prophetic. After completing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
analyst, didn’t have the authority to offer $20, much less $20 million. She quickly called Jeff Chambers, a managing director who had been with TA Associates for almost two decades and had opened the firm’s Silicon View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
equally interested and perhaps equally inexperienced in high technology, are carrying such enthusiasm even further. Rather than wait for Silicon Valley to come to the School, two student organizations - the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
Argentina's farmers now have access to the Internet and are using it on a regular basis. Agropool is funded by Tempo 2, a Silicon Valley firm that has partnered with Argentine businesses to provide strategic... View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
in the high tech space. The plan was to put its customers’ financial statements and other financial data on the Internet, at the time a revolutionary idea. With just $100,000 in revenues, the startup’s ambitious plans were being met with indifference. Not a single... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
exchange of ideas,” said Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires and a symposium co-organizer. HBS also has research centers in China, India, Europe, and Silicon 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... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
with its authority.” As of April 27, the Chatbot is now live and available to 1.9 million people as part of the new Silicon Valley Strong website, the centralized clearing house of coronavirus resources.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
with its authority.” As of April 27, the Chatbot is now live and available to 1.9 million people as part of the new Silicon Valley Strong website, the centralized clearing house of coronavirus resources.... 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
- Portrait Project
Sarah Assayag
robotic startup with two classmates and working with thought-provoking futurists in the Silicon Valley convinced me that I can indeed help humanity transcend its limitations. Yet at the same time,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who have cashed out of their own companies but serve as business coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
investors. Two weeks before Brandon joined his HBS cohort on campus in the fall of 2015, he went to Silicon Valley to raise funds for Shield AI. The Tsengs and a third cofounder, Andrew Reiter, pitched to 30... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
home country was clearly his default choice when looking for a partner. As Silicon Valley is a special place on many dimensions, I sought to characterize how well this case study generalized to other cities,... 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,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
were also important themes of a popular March 20 breakout session titled "The Silicon Valley Miracle." This panel discussion was led off by Gordon Moore, cofounder and chairman of Intel and one of the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice