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Dana Hoffmann
Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at Symantec, the Silicon Valley... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
My son Francesco was 3 months old when I started at HBS in August 2014. In the winter break of my EC year, my little daughter Giulia Maria was born. Francesco was 2 and a half and Giulia Maria was 8 months old when I started my job at Microsoft in View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Slayton (MBA 1990) discussing the situation he faced in 1997 when he took over as president and CEO of a small company called MySoftware. The firm was a struggling Silicon Valley business that developed and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
sectors." Wilkins adds that this is perhaps an upside to the tragedies New Orleans has endured: "The beauty of Katrina—if there is a silver lining to Katrina—is it washed a lot of problems away. It forced the city to start over and do things right. "We've moved way... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
market timing was critical to the success of the new venture. In addition to providing financing and advice on product development, marketing, and finance, Kleiner introduced Netscape to key Silicon Valley... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore or Hong Kong before pursuing... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
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Kimble McCraw
impact." Experiences outside the classroom have been rewarding as well. Over winter break, Kimble joined a number of HBS colleagues on the Silicon Valley trek. "We met with VC firms, start-ups and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
government. “When I was still at McKinsey,” he recalls, “I moved to Silicon Valley in 2000 at the height of the Internet bubble, where I saw all the beautiful excesses of irrational exuberance. Yes, it was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
monetary policy over the past two years, and yet, not only is the economy robust, housing prices are robust. It's almost a mystery as to why things are so strong with such significant tightening. Layne: There have been some warning signals, such as the View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
evolved and progressed. This time the coin has flipped. I return equipped with more knowledge and passion for the startup industry, and also with more empathy for both founders and investors. The ability to understand both sides has shaped my investment style and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in high tech in View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and professional fulfillment. The book includes thought-provoking questions for reflection to help readers make a similar transformation. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao (MBA 1998) (Spiegel & Grau) In 2015 Ellen Pao sued a powerhouse View Details
- 01 May 2019
- Blog Post
Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset
establishment or to the Silicon Valley dream. To maintain the right balance of trust, I believe what is important is to have a healthy skepticism in ourselves and proactively put a structure to complement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
“As a nonprofit, I think we’d be in fifty schools in Silicon Valley versus fifty thousand schools across the country,” he said. WEBSE efforts are paying off. Austin reports that they are connecting donors... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government thought like a View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
2002, executives from Silicon Valley to Boston met to tell how they twine their business leadership with religious and personal values. Attendees said their religious/spiritual beliefs helped them: inspire... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Mina Kazanlieva
communities. We examined our own responsibilities." Beyond the campus After an IXP in Silicon Valley in Mina's RC year, she interned at Anheuser-Busch InBev "to see a corporation from the inside,... View Details