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- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
increase over the last 30 years. That number topped 20 percent in some industries, such as in technology, and more than 25 percent in some locations, such as Silicon Valley. “We were expecting it to go up, but not by that much,” Koning... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
risks and learn how to develop scalable strategies that deliver a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Enroll Today Whether you’re a college engineering major hoping to land a job in Silicon Valley, a recent law school grad preparing... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Monte (“End of the Santa Fe Trail”) remains a magnet for prostitutes, particularly transvestites. Police dub them “heeshees” (he/shes); some dress in spiky heels and miniskirts, sporting silicone implants (done in Mexico) that a Hollywood... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
has prohibited NCCs for many years. Many argue that it hasn’t hurt business in the state. After all, Silicon Valley, with all of its training and talent, has been able to thrive without NCCs, although California does enforce... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
other options that felt like something out of a Silicon Valley tech giant. Further, sustainability felt baked into all decision-making, rather than just a check-the-boxes exercise, with an understanding that the future of the company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
region. After all, while it might have a Silicon Valley–like valuation and aggressive expansion plan, the organization can’t simply hire more software engineers in order to grow. And unlike the NBA’s efforts to operate in China, where it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
reduce the psychological fear. In addition, India is rising because there's just a ton of very well-trained doctors just like there is a ton of well-trained engineers. Over the decades, many engineers have relocated to Silicon Valley, but... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
luxurious. It reminds me of how far our family has come, and most importantly, it reminds me of the choice that I have as a second generation Asian American. With a bit of luck and a lot of initiative, I grew up in the bosom of Silicon... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
Silicon Valley's culture as a whole—‘an algorithm solves everything’ and ‘just put it out and we'll fix it later.’ In traditional media, for example, considerable debate can go into the production of a program ... With YouTube, Facebook,... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
are retiring; and, – eventually, – as someone facing the end of your own career. Slides CASE STUDY: Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours Professor Charles Wang 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info In this session, we will... View Details
James H. Clark
Clark is considered a serial entrepreneur. In 1982, he founded Silicon Graphics, which became a leading provider of three-dimensional computer graphic applications. First used by architects and designers, View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it became is past its apex, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Out of the Valley
Episode 1: The Camel and the Unicorn Why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing it startup dominance—and what that could mean for the future of innovation. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Episode 2: A Creator in the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles... View Details
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Arthur Rock
Amid the iconoclastic and frenetic glamour of Silicon Valley, Arthur Rock’s low-key eastern pragmatism might have seemed strangely out of place. But Rock, a Rochester, NY native who graduated from Syracuse with a degree in political... View Details