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- 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
- 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 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
feed growth, even if their competitors are also on the same block. Detroit and Silicon Valley, likewise, provided valuable clusters of talent and suppliers where, Alcácer realized, "whenever you saw one firm, you saw the other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
integrated computer industry, and was able to specialize in creating the core component of computing—the microprocessor. And then he championed that silicon part with the famous "Intel Inside" marketing campaign. "The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
critical,” he observes. “Even with my global experience, there was still that level of learning that I needed to have about Argentina before I could add value because individual countries have nuances that necessitate an understanding of local context before one can do... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 14 Oct 2015
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Web
For Organizations - Business & Environment
opportunity to engage with students who might be a fit for your organization. In past BEI Independent Projects, student teams have helped develop a commercial plant site selection plan for silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies, a... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
areas are Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York City, and Washington DC. Indianapolis ranked 81 in 2012, 58 in 2006, and 95 in 2000. Among the lowest ranked in 2018, Little Rock, Arkansas was number 128 in 2012, 122 in 2006, and 129 in 2000.... 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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
partner of an early stage fund investing in women-led businesses. Rupp’s approach is more moderate than that used by some of her Silicon Valley brethren, so in some ways she’s not feeling the hangover effects as much as the bigger firms.... View Details
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
Santa Clara County into Silicon Valley. “Countries are beginning to realize—Israel being one of them—that they need to engage in public diplomacy, not just a foreign diplomacy, and in place branding, not just political advocacy, ” says... 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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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
- 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... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
practitioners of innovation and creativity. Given their importance for global economic health and progress, the questions are worth pondering. One highly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur will ask whether management is a net positive... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett