Publications

February 2004
Case

New HP, The: The Clean Room and Beyond

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Elizabeth Kind

When the $19 billion merger of Silicon Valley legend Hewlett-Packard and Houston-based PC giant Compaq Computer Corp. legally closed on May 3, 2002, both companies had already devoted an immense amount of time preparing for the challenges that lay ahead. Chief among... View Details

Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Management Teams; Management Style; Problems and Challenges; Employees; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry; San Francisco

January 2000 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Hambrecht & Quist (B)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Nicole Tempest

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; San Francisco

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

by connecting with faculty and alumni from other parts of Harvard. “The challenge of addressing climate change will require an interdisciplinary approach,” Grant observes. At the San Francisco event, titled... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

13 Nov 2020
News

Insatiably Curious

really powerful,” she says. A case in point, Ma relied on the alumni network to connect with graduates when she moved to San Francisco five years ago, and more recently to London, to prepare for her new... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2003
News

Campaign News

faculty development; technology; and campus renewal. As Dean Kim B. Clark told the capacity crowd at Lincoln Center in New York City, “If we do our work well, we actually can change the way the world works.” This spring, alumni across the country joined together to... View Details

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 17 Oct 2016
HBS Alumni Events

Alumnae Circles Open House: Palo Alto

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

28 May 2019
News

Broken Link

Illustration by Chris Gash In 2011, Evan Marwell (MBA 1992) was serving on the board of his daughter’s school in San Francisco when he discovered something surprising: The school’s Wi-Fi was terrible. He was... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)

we have animation and movies? We don’t. And the world has become so small that these movies flow all around the world in a very fast way through media and the Internet. I’m based in San Francisco but travel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hello Kitty; Arts, Entertainment; Special Design Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2012
News

Reinventing Radio Days

COO—he followed his passion for music and took the helm at Savage Beast Technologies (SBT), a cash-strapped San Francisco start-up. How bad were things at SBT? “The company wasn’t running on fumes,” Kennedy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; internet radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Article

Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

We document that the Bay Area rose from 4% of all successful US patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and... View Details

Keywords: Agglomeration; Information Technology; Patents; San Francisco

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January 2000 (Revised February 2000)
Case

The HBS California Research Center

By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scott D Landry

Harvard Business School's (HBS) California Research Center, a three-year experiment initiated in July 1997 to facilitate research, case-writing, and course development centered in the Silicon Valley Region, has been a "phenomenal success." In June 1999, HBS Dean Kim... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Success; Education Industry; San Francisco

October 2011 (Revised August 2017)
Case

PunchTab, Inc.

By: Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr and Lauren Barley

PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2011, that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile applications developers, and brands. Founder/CEO Ranjith Kumaran must make strategic decisions about how to fund... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Funds; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; San Francisco

November 2001
Case

Bang Networks-The First Customer (B)

By: Jay O. Light and Mary N. Caravella

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; San Francisco

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December 1997 (Revised August 1998)
Case

Randy Haykin: The Making of an Entrepreneur (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse

An MBA graduate, 10 years out, reflects on his career path. Randy Haykin is currently running his own venture catalyst organization in the Silicon Valley. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Organizations; San Francisco

October 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Case

Visionary Design Systems: Are Incentives Enough?

By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler

A compensation case about Visionary Design Systems (VDS), a small, high-tech full service systems integration firm based in Silicon Valley with eleven offices throughout the country. All employees, including engineers, administrators, and receptionists, received a... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; San Francisco