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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
then helped pass a California proposition that resulted in the allocation of an additional $23 billion for the state’s public schools. He also co-chaired a successful effort to pass a bill in California that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Events Around the World
Northern California at ThirstyBear Brewing Company. 11 TOKYO: Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) at the Campaign’s Tokyo Regional Event in January 2015. To see more photos from past Campaign events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignPhotos. View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, Waite spent several years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in a variety of technical and project management roles in Norway, the Netherlands, the United States, and Egypt. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
graduating from the University of Southern California (USC) with degrees in electrical engineering and economics, Stevens wanted to pursue a master's degree in computer engineering but didn't want to give up his job at Intel Corporation.... View Details
- Profile
Taylor Wiegele
they had?" Learning from peers HBS attracted Taylor as way to go beyond his "narrow California experience," to work through a rigorous general management curriculum, and to learn from his "peers about VC, PE,... View Details
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Jaime Mendez
could be exposed to broader issues," says Jaime. "I knew HBS had a reputation for producing general managers. Here, I could brush up on hard skills while rounding out my leadership skill set." Seven teams, seven minutes, and one rewarding competition... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
Phil Angelides, a California state treasurer for eight years, is no stranger to big money and politics. But as chairman of Congress’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission looking into the 2008 Wall Street collapse, he was shocked. “I am no... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
Global Operations, in the spring of 2021. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom exploded. The California... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
got on a plane and went to California for the first time, eventually finding a secretarial job at a starting salary that would have driven down our class average dramatically, had I reported it to HBS. But I knew this was the world where... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
unpopular preventive health behavior: handwashing with soap. The study finds that frontloading both financial and social incentives facilitates habituation. Incentives, Peer Pressure, and Behavior Persistence This research explores whether and how incentivized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level
companies now. i.e. This is bigger than just you. Interested in learning more about the MS/MBA? Here are four things you need to know. -- Anita Mehrotra is a Class of 2018 HBS student (Section I!) and was previously a data scientist at Accenture Tech Labs and... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
in our classrooms. We are excited by the possibilities generated by our research offices in California and Hong Kong and our planned center in Latin America. The California Research Center (CRC) has far... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
either in Boston or on the West Coast (in conjunction with our California Research Center in Silicon Valley). Our faculty will teach a distance learning course with some classes originating in California and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap
industry. Other CPD team members ran the logistics of 60 interviews, assisting 24 companies in connecting with potential HBS candidates. One event that created a lot of buzz was the StartUp mixer. CPD and HBS California Research Center... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- February 1995 (Revised May 1996)
- Teaching Note
Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-292-140). View Details
- June 2020
- Supplement
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details
Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California
Neeley, Tsedal, and Briana Richardson. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-073, June 2020.
- September 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Western Technology Investment
By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Nicole Keller
Based in Portola Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised funds from institutional investors and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; California
Nanda, Ramana, William A. Sahlman, and Nicole Keller. "Western Technology Investment." Harvard Business School Case 817-019, September 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- April 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery business. It is backed by $220 million of venture funding. Will this model succeed where businessses like Webvan failed? What are the questions that this exploratory... View Details
Keywords: Food Retailing; Outsourced Grocery Delivery; Online Ordering; Dynamic Pricing; Data Analytics; Marketing Strategy; Food; Distribution Channels; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; California
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups." Harvard Business School Case 515-089, April 2015. (Revised March 2017.)