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- 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
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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
- 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
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Former Theranos employees began testifying this week against Elizabeth Holmes, the once-celebrated biotech’s founder and CEO, in a criminal trial that has Silicon Valley worried. In opening statements last week, federal prosecutors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon. PREPARING GLOBAL LEADERS Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley Made in Italy Hands-on Learning About Global Markets View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise
open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as a woman of color. I came to... View Details
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
informal, I connected with and the dozens of one-on-one meetings with HBS professors that generated insights that informed the future of the company. Cash: The joke in Silicon Valley is that in valuing a startup, you should subtract $250k... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant
global community. Meanwhile, I am spending my deferred period in the Silicon Valley at VMware where I am focused on improving and scaling their SaaS & Subscription business. I am excited for the Harvard MBA program and I look forward... View Details
- Fast Answer
Compensation by Industry/Position/Location
cover. The data is filterable by employer name, type of job, and job location, catching the differences between software engineers in Silicon Valley and Miami. This data comes from visa-holding employees, and not American citizens or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
professional ties to HBS classmates continue to be strong. In addition, it was during business school that he and some friends first came up with the idea for what would become Rakuten. “Before HBS, I never would have considered being an entrepreneur,” recalls... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details
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Investor - Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital & Private Equity Club Annual Conference Attend an Immersion Field Course (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley. SPRING Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital Journey Scaling Technology Ventures... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to... View Details
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Joiner - Entrepreneurship
research and prep for outreach. Attend an Immersion Field Course (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley SPRING Take EC Courses to build startup skills and experience: Scaling Tech Ventures Entrepreneurial Sales Startup Operations... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
prospective investors if they decide to launch another new venture. In many parts of the world, failed founders are stigmatized, but fortunately, in Silicon Valley and some other startup ecosystems, investors are more forgiving. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Vikram Gandhi January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI Mark Roberge January 2026 J 3.0 Launch Lab/Capstone 1 Alan MacCormack Russell J Wilcox January 2026 J 3.0 Launch... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
for what would eventually become the online services marketplace NextDoor Networks, a business they launched shortly after graduation. Loo and Sityodtong lived and worked out of a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley along with Loo’s... View Details
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Ellen Desmarais | About
HBP’s continuing commitment to DEI. In addition to her career with established brands, Ellen has also worked with Silicon Valley startups as an executive and an advisor. She began her career in marketing and analysis at Capital One and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA Ames campus in View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Society; and George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Five Technologies That Will Change the World, with Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1990), MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, and The View Details