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01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Leadership

minimum $100,000 investment. This “Xperiment Stake” competition, dedicated to startups in the Generative AI... March 7, 2025 Article Harvard Business Review (website) Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss The assumption embedded in... View Details

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

School Case 125-090, March 2025. Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss March 7, 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review (website) The assumption embedded in Silicon Valley’s famous “move fast and break... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

some of the most prominent people in Silicon Valley, I've realized the power of technology to solve problems at a very large scale. The ability to impact hundreds of lives, at an early age, in a field I knew relatively little about, was... View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Caregiving Crisis Hurting Firm Profitability, Employee Productivity HBS 16 Jan 2019 | HBS Newsroom Why Silicon Valley needs more visas Henrique Dubugras 13 Jan 2019 | TechCrunch Red tape, rhetoric and the race for global talent Lisa... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Ruback , Royce Yudkoff Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Founder Mindset Reza Satchu Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero (also listed under General Management) Vikram Gandhi January 2025 J 3.0 IFC: View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details

04 Jan 2024
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Great Heights

In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

offered $10,000 bonuses to employees who moved closer to the company’s main campus in Menlo Park, California. Google went even further in 2017, providing affordable, modular housing for hundreds of workers in Silicon Valley. The research... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

people push you up and you’ll continue to get better.” You Might Want to Read 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in View Details

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

heart of Silicon Valley. His landmark 2003 gift to establish the Rock Center funded not only a home base for entrepreneurship faculty, but also a lasting foundation for innovative course development, MBA and doctoral fellowships,... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

affect innovation? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Trillion Dollar Coach: Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell (HarperCollins,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Cluster (2012) Miami, Florida Marine Transportation Cluster (2012) South Carolina Automotive Sector (2012) Tennessee Music Cluster (2012) California Solar Energy (2011) Silicon Valley (California) Internet-Based Services (2011) Minnesota... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

team with data scientists and others trained in computer science, math, statistics, and physics, including many who held doctorates. To attract the best people, Target knew it had to keep at least part of its data operation in Silicon... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Finding Talent Opportunities

Shoma Simkin 13 MAR 2025 The Ascend Leadership Program at HBS provides first-generation and low-income MBA students with the support and resources needed to navigate and excel in the business school environment. WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in View Details

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 May 2005
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Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

venture capitalists from leading firms in Silicon Valley. The following are excerpts from their responses. Russell Siegelman (hbs Mba '89) Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers The most important requirement is a large market... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

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