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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms. "But a higher priority was my girlfriend, Ann, who had just dumped me." While his initial advances into the VC world were thwarted, the move paid off romantically when... View Details
- 28 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
Legendary venture capitalist and philanthropist Bill Bowes (MBA 1952) passed away on December 28. Bowes founded San Francisco’s US Venture Partners in 1981 and helped shape some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, including Sun... 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
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
have to be the end of economic opportunity in a community,” they write. “History has shown us, time and again, that real opportunity doesn’t require billions of dollars of investment or the backing of Silicon Valley or Boston. Successful... View Details
Keywords: New England
- 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 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
were also important themes of a popular March 20 breakout session titled "The Silicon Valley Miracle." This panel discussion was led off by Gordon Moore, cofounder and chairman of Intel and one of the principal architects of the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 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
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
Silicon Valley. The Valley is unique, he says, because it is a magnet for intellectual talent (including graduates of Stanford, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship and venture capital), has a concentration of large companies... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
Intel, the world's largest maker of microprocessors, is a legend in Silicon Valley for its creativity and no-frills management. Senior Vice President Leslie L. Vadasz (107th AMP), for instance, oversees corporate business development from... View Details
- 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
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Finish What You Start-up
Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) is cofounder and CMO of the popular online ratings website Angie’s List. In this interview she reflects on the challenges––and advantages––of starting her company away from Silicon Valley: “Don't take yourself too... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
Studio The Rock Center’s New York office opened on December 1, 2015, in Midtown Manhattan, with plans to move to a permanent space in the heart of Silicon Alley in the spring. The 40-desk entrepreneurship community is open to all HBS... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
Trust, peeks behind the curtains of Silicon Valley’s tech culture and the fight to the top of the food chain—a story told through lens of a Taiwanese-American family, the Huangs. It’s an unblinking look at some of the Valley’s foibles,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
drawings," says Lawson, who worked on a prototype for the product and a business plan as part of a field study with Associate Professor David M. Upton. She then spent five months lining up venture capital backing in Silicon Valley. "I... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
be non-American. Andy Grove, a survivor of the Holocaust, would not have wanted to come to a country that didn’t welcome immigrants. Moreover, it is no wonder that Silicon Valley is up in arms over this policy. Our most dynamic industry... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details