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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
bit. However, if I tell you it has to run on a gallon of gas for five hundred miles, you have to start over.” This kind of goal deserves the “super stretch” label. Increasingly, it is being cited as a reason behind the success of one View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
development. This concentration of expertise can be found in places like Silicon Valley, where clusters of experts and firms feed growth and spur innovation. Much of the damage to American competitiveness in the science and technology... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
2002, executives from Silicon Valley to Boston met to tell how they twine their business leadership with religious and personal values. Attendees said their religious/spiritual beliefs helped them: inspire their companies to do good in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- Profile
Mina Kazanlieva
communities. We examined our own responsibilities." Beyond the campus After an IXP in Silicon Valley in Mina's RC year, she interned at Anheuser-Busch InBev "to see a corporation from the inside, how things actually get made and... View Details
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Alex Slusky
has paid off. “By differentiating ourselves from the ordinary VC,” says Alex, “we have grown from a nascent start-up in 1997 to a partnership that now manages $2 billion in assets today. If you look at the West Coast PE industry, you’ll see that it is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
especially for a company in New York or Silicon Valley. The second strategic benefit is hiring. Think about all the talent that is being left behind because they can’t migrate to the US due to the current immigration system. I have done... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship | MBA
The Founder Mindset , Launching Technology Ventures , and Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI. Harvard Innovation Labs Available to all Harvard students who are looking to explore entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs provide all... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
on-the-ground partner organizations to assist in ongoing relief efforts. Additional IXP destinations for 2011 include Rwanda, Brazil, China, Vietnam, India, Silicon Valley, South Africa, and Vietnam. (The Bulletin went along on an IXP to... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at Symantec, the Silicon Valley security software giant, and was... View Details
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Kimball Thomas
with his cousin Davis in the Silicon Valley where they will “crank on new business ideas.” Kimball will test the best of them in the Business Plan Competition next year. Meanwhile, Kimball never studies alone; he’s joined at HBS by his... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Clark will also brief attendees on the School's efforts to build intellectual capital around these ideas and integrate them into the curriculum. He will report on some of the early work of HBS's California Research Center, our new facility in View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
Thomas R. Eisenmann and Michael PaoHarvard Business School Case 811-065 Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example, Shin-Etsu Handotai, one of the world's leading producers of the View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
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Jonathan Evans
clubs supplement learning through panels, executive visits, and treks. One influential experience was joining over 100 students on the TechMedia Club's WesTrek, a program in which students visit various companies in San Francisco and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
marketplace at close range.” The School’s Global Initiative oversees research centers and offices in Buenos Aires, California’s Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, Paris, São Paulo, and Tokyo. Foundation Supports Baker’s Historical Collections... View Details
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Leila Meliani
In the January break between semesters this year, Leila Meliani participated in the Tech Club's WesTrek to Silicon Valley and arrived at a welcome epiphany. "We heard several venture capital partners speak to the need for talent –... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Casey Gerald
build enduring communities of support for entrepreneurial efforts. “We want to prove,” Casey says, “that entrepreneurship can succeed anywhere – you don’t have to be in New York or Silicon Valley to do it.” Interviewed Spring 2013. ... View Details