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- 22 Aug 2016
- News
Working for a Faster, Safer Internet
immersion programs, where they would take students to different parts of the world to expose them to doing business in China or Israel or India. And for the first time, they were doing one to Silicon Valley. All these people that I had... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence... 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
- 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
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
Korean entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. I was impressed during this project with both the importance of foreign-born scientists and entrepreneurs for U.S. technology formation, and the close ties that some of these expatriates... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
include essays from scholars at institutions such as HBS, Stanford, and MIT, as well as from senior managers at Intel, IBM, and Mercer Management Consulting. Drawing on lessons from leading companies of the information age, including View Details
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
designing the evolution of their career and life. Wendi works full-time in Silicon Valley at Egon Zehnder, which she joined in January 2024. Immediately before her current role, she served as the VP of Business Development and Operations... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarah Assayag
robotic startup with two classmates and working with thought-provoking futurists in the Silicon Valley convinced me that I can indeed help humanity transcend its limitations. Yet at the same time, experiencing the internal void of being... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
Silicon Valley companies before his accession to his current post. Slayton sees himself as an "implementer" of other people's good ideas; his value, he believes, lies in his drive to make things happen, willingness to make decisions when... 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
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
with its authority.” As of April 27, the Chatbot is now live and available to 1.9 million people as part of the new Silicon Valley Strong website, the centralized clearing house of coronavirus resources. “One of the things you can do to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
My son Francesco was 3 months old when I started at HBS in August 2014. In the winter break of my EC year, my little daughter Giulia Maria was born. Francesco was 2 and a half and Giulia Maria was 8 months old when I started my job at Microsoft in View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
with its authority.” As of April 27, the Chatbot is now live and available to 1.9 million people as part of the new Silicon Valley Strong website, the centralized clearing house of coronavirus resources. “One of the things you can do to... View Details
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site
obligation to do that,” he noted. Prince cofounded Cloudflare in 2009 with classmate and current COO Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009). You can listen to the two discuss how they created the company after meeting at HBS in this recent episode of Skydeck. Zatlyn also discussed... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
games, and even songs.” Those in the photo, left to right: Bob Bosler (says Kuehn) or Mel Horwitch (says Barry), Tom Spanier (holding a decision-tree spoof), Daniels, Karen Green, Williams, Zschau, Ray Pousaz (says Kuehn), Bill Ehrhart, Ats Miyawaki, and Jim Eversmann.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
McFarlan said, "There is no application gap at all. What is going on in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong is at the same rate of speed as what has been going on in Silicon Valley and Boston." In all of this, there's a hair's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
the early days in what—thanks to him and his colleagues—became Silicon Valley. As Johnson describes it, he and his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954) formed their venture capital firm in 1962 and drove around the Santa Clara (now Silicon)... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
market timing was critical to the success of the new venture. In addition to providing financing and advice on product development, marketing, and finance, Kleiner introduced Netscape to key Silicon Valley players, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 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