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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
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
deliver persuasive pitches. Many don’t know how the deals and relationships really work. Kupor outlines what he and his partners look for in founding teams and business ideas and explains how start-ups work with VCs to become successful companies. He also discusses how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
Spar, adding dryly, "Ayn Rand is alive and well and living in Silicon Valley." These prognosticators, from Spar's perspective, ignore the fact that there are precedents — technological breakthroughs in the course of history that were, for... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
Net. In Silicon Valley, along Route 128, and in the samizdat cafes of Beijing and Rangoon, there is a palpable sense of excitement, a prevailing belief that authority is dead and that digital technologies have killed it. And to some... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
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Colt Stander
curriculums, there’s an end. But in design, there’s never a perfect solution. And in a way, conducting business is an ongoing design challenge that’s never finished.” Analytical yet creative future During the winter break, Colt participated in the Westrek to San... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Silicon Valley," says Koss. "We're in Toronto. I'm a mom. I have two kids." Yet they want this to be more than just another online lifestyle shop—they're hopeful they can build it into a very lucrative career, not only for themselves, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
story. Mike Cassidy (MBA ’91) alone has four. Since graduating, he has launched and sold four tech companies, earning him the sobriquet “Start-Up King of Silicon Valley” (see article). His advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “Don’t hesitate... View Details
- Profile
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
- 27 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Building on Business Basics at HBS
what made you interested in applying?In undergrad I studied business, and one of the star students at the school my freshman year was a senior who was accepted into the inaugural 2+2 class. I later went on to complete summer internships at a large company in View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
develop a better sense of what opportunities may exist for an aspiring product marketer and whether certain companies had cultures that aligned well with my values. Since most of the visits were run by HBS alums, we had access to candid perspectives about what it’s... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
require lifelong care; and at about the same time, Tuchman sold his company for a profit. “Those events really shaped the way I invest,” he says. Amid the dot-com boom, when “people were doing a lot of really dumb things with money in View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
been a draw for innovators of a different sort—technology workers who began populating the suburbs of the South Bay, which came to be known as Silicon Valley, in the 1970s and '80s. In recent years, they have increasingly put down roots... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
reminded of this by a wave of new books describing management practices in Silicon Valley firms, many of them from founders and managers of high tech firms who are just now finding time to write about their accomplishments. Several have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
government. “When I was still at McKinsey,” he recalls, “I moved to Silicon Valley in 2000 at the height of the Internet bubble, where I saw all the beautiful excesses of irrational exuberance. Yes, it was a bubble, but it was very fun!... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
The arc of Diane Flynn's career will be familiar to many talented professionals – especially talented female professionals. After a successful run at The Boston Consulting Group, she got her MBA from HBS (1988) and went on to have an enviable, decade-long career with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
technology finance here in Silicon Valley or have moved on to different positions or industries, so I'm now one of the few CFOs in high tech with my level of experience." Throughout his career, Goldman has sought jobs that would allow him... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
On her first foray into Silicon Valley, Karen Edwards (MBA '90) didn't have much success finding the job she wanted: head of marketing at an Internet company. Told she didn't know enough about technology, Edwards persevered and finally... View Details
- 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
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
function, and any bugs or badly-written code hits the bottom-line. I was fortunate to work with some of the best engineers in Silicon Valley. Can you describe what you’ll be doing post-HBS? I'm working full-time on Elektra Labs, a... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC), and the California Research Center (CRC). The gathering took place at the Four Seasons View Details