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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
equally interested and perhaps equally inexperienced in high technology, are carrying such enthusiasm even further. Rather than wait for Silicon Valley to come to the School, two student organizations - the CMC (Communications, Media &... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- Profile
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
- 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
John E. Jonsson
Jonsson built Texas Instruments as a leader in transistor technology. He acquired a license for using the Bell silicon transistor patent, employed qualified personnel and started extensive research in this field, which resulted in many... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
Peru, India, China, Boston, and Silicon Valley, you get a virtual “around the world” tour in just a few minutes, complete with photos and commentary. “Today we visit Accel-backed Mochi Media, sold yesterday for $80M to Shanda; has raised... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Competitive Advantages
The School's US Competitiveness Project held events in Silicon Valley and Chicago in the fall. At top, Professor William A. Sahlman leads a discussion on entrepreneurship with Northern California business leaders Mary Meeker, a partner at... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Welcome to the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series “Out of the Valley.” Today’s episode starts in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the late 2000s. The city looked... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
Last summer Gregory W. Slayton (MBA '90) took a break from the rapid pace of Silicon Valley. The peace and quiet of a family vacation allowed him some time to reflect and, incidentally, he mentions, to start three companies. Slayton seems... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the military, and figure out ways... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
important for regional development as well: "Given the many and mostly unsuccessful attempts to recreate Silicon Valley in various areas, understanding whether noncompetes play a role could be of help to policymakers," he adds.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Robert N. Noyce
With his long time business partner Gordon Moore, Noyce was a charismatic leader of Fairchild Semiconductor, and later the first CEO of Intel. At Fairchild, Noyce guided the company through many growing pains and technological changes, helping it to become a $150... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
There is electricity in the air at 7:00 a.m. at Il Fornaio, Palo Alto's hottest breakfast spot. The cappuccino maker runs nonstop, the energetic waitstaff hustles to and from the kitchen, a steady stream of Silicon Valley celebs walk in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Partner with a Student Club - Recruiting
Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 28 Apr 2025 How to onboard recently graduated MBAs 04 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao... View Details
David Packard
Packard and his partner Bill Hewlett created the first real Silicon Valley technology company in H-P, a diversified electronics maker. Together the two men built a strong company that survived World War II and enjoyed continued success... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
that IXPs will be held in Latin America, China, India, the Middle East, Africa, Vietnam, New Orleans, Silicon Valley, and Boston. (IXP regions are determined in part by student interest.) Just back from the India IXP (postponed until... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
Customers Make the Rules. The 1999 second-place article, "Bringing Silicon Valley Inside," was written by HBS research fellow Gary Hamel. His article argues that large companies can capture some of Silicon... View Details
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Thomas Weisel | Baker Library
companies on the West Coast. In the 1970s, the idea of an investment bank thriving outside of Wall Street was, as he puts it, “almost blasphemous.” Montgomery Securities became an integral part of the Silicon Valley story, however, and... View Details