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Saachi Gopal

Saachi is excited to help both career switchers and those coming to school from the tech industry explore opportunities and navigate recruiting. Prior to HBS, Saachi was a product manager on Microsoft’s AI platform team, and she spent the... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

I graduated from Harvard Business School last month with 900 indomitable classmates as part of the Class of 2021. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to my family, friends, colleagues, and everyone else who made this journey from Bombay to Boston possible. While I came... View Details

Career Coach

Madhav Datt

Madhav is a startup founder and tech product manager. He worked as Product Manager at Google where he launched and scaled B2B AI product from 0 -> $645M incremental ARR. Prior to that he was a Quant Researcher in US Equities at... View Details

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about career coaching at HBS. Among her... View Details

Career Coach

Henry Tao

Before HBS, Henry worked in multiple countries, including the US, Germany, Singapore, and China. Having started his career in an operational role at a global company and then later transitioned into investing, Henry can provide insights into career pivoting through the... View Details

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

why high tech industries find themselves vulnerable to disruption today reflect thoughts of those who have studied the phenomenon. Philippe Gouamba said, "It is more important for Apple to out-do Samsung (and vice-versa) than it is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States

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Educators

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19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results." —standard financial disclaimer Neophyte investors—it is believed—play a role in creating asset price bubbles such as the tech collapse a few years ago. Just think back to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

Career Coach

Adriann Dolphin

Adriann wants to help students explore roles in the consumer products and tech industries. She can also provide insight into the job experience in consulting, having worked in that industry. She is happy to help with interview prep,... View Details

22 Jul 2014
News

Regulation Will Not Kill Airbnb, Says Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn

Career Coach

Yiwei Zhao

Yiwei enjoys helping students explore opportunities in the following industries: Technology (big tech and growth-stage tech), self-driving cars, AI/ML, and consulting; and functions: product operations, product management, program... View Details

22 Feb 2024
Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

In 2021, after working in big tech for just over four years, I felt an itch to try something new. I was seeing friends around me leave their more established jobs to pursue exciting opportunities as early employees in startups. Many of... View Details

20 Apr 2015
News

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

Career Coach

Xinyi Ge

Xinyi has worked in strategy consulting and switched successfully into technology industry as a Product Manager. She enjoys helping fellow students in career search and is great at advising students in: 1) crafting career vision, 2) switching into View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tqSnOoXaZYY/maxresdefault.jpg] It means your professors are incredibly entrepreneurial, and are applying research in cutting edge tech, stats and business to areas like health, sports and so much more. #5. Cambridge and Boston are def on the... View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible, as precisely as possible. The panelists at the 2005 Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" session at Harvard Business School on January 29th... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 Oct 2012
News

Microsoft Trims Ballmer’s Bonus

28 May 2020
News

Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion

30 Mar 2021
Video

Thrive! Finalist in 2021 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track

21 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

Builders Club’s mission is to empower leaders who build a better, more creative, and more diverse world. The club is a think tank for innovative ideas and a space for meaningful bonds between the builders community and prominent venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and... View Details

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