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Finding Talent Opportunities
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 MAR 2025 For decades, WesTrek has been the flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech... 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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Harvard spent a winter break week in New York exploring new ventures in fashion, food, and fine arts, and co-led four similar winter break trips to Silicon Valley . Eisenmann also created the MBA electives Launching Technology Ventures ,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
silicon chip, Analog would sell an answer." “Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career,” they write. However, Tushman and Binns explain in the following Q&A, explorers are the ones who lead established... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and other companies in View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Founder - Entrepreneurship
support Lawyers-in-Residence Pitch to Harvard Transaction Law Clinic JANUARY TERM Sign up for Immersion Field Courses (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley. SPRING Pitch your startup for feedback and the opportunity to win prize... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au
investor and CEO of Veritas Investments to his HBS experience. “I saw opportunities for growing the business but wasn’t sure how to capitalize on them,” says Au who purchased his first building in Silicon Valley in 1996 and later founded... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
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 investors. All 30 said no, with one suggesting that the trio pivot to producing... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
experience. Sound Micro Wallace Pai Joe Ngai Albert Lee Wen H. Hseieh Business Track Runner-Up To commercialize MEMS(Micro Elctro-Mechnical Systems) technology for developing a self-biasing silicon microphone. Business Track,1999 Local... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
entrepreneur and I knew I needed something more fulfilling and challenging like that again. Being in Silicon Valley, I was fortunate to find mentors who helped me do some soul searching on the path ahead. After a period of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
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The Gift of Global Talent
Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 Why Silicon Valley needs more visas Henrique Dubugras 13 Jan 2019 | TechCrunch Red tape, rhetoric and the race for global talent Lisa Bernhard 10 Jan 2019 | Reuters TV... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
lumping them all together. That said, the success of the Silicon Valley community and the massive wealth that some people have accumulated have caught the eye of India. And as in most things in life, timing is everything: In some sense... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
product at the lowest price" About 22 percent of the world's 300 mm silicon wafer supply came from the Shin-Etsu Handotai's Shirakawa plant in Fukushima prefecture, and 60 percent of critical auto parts were in the same area, says... View Details
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
Venrock, as he shares lessons from his more than 25 years of experience in the venture capital business in Silicon Valley. The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of Your Company For years, you've worked nonstop and sweated bullets... View Details