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- 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
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the military, and figure out ways... View Details
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- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
Silicon Valley a natural fit. It’s a path that worked quite nicely for Thomas, who eventually rose to vice president of marketing at SuccessFactors, a software firm focused on employee performance and strategy solutions. Then, in 1995,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
exchange of ideas,” said Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires and a symposium co-organizer. HBS also has research centers in China, India, Europe, and Silicon Valley and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
year, which attracted some five hundred attendees to this year's session in September. Said conference organizer Brian Carlton Byrd (MBA '92), "We want to help foster the same investment climate for New York's Silicon Alley that... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard... View Details
- 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 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
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”
As anyone with a Twitter account can tell you, the marriage of tech and politics is growing ever tighter. The three HBS alumni who appear on WIRED’s recent “20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign” are good examples of how Washington is turning to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it became is past its apex, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
due north and landed in Stockholm, where they made headlines in the local paper after spending their days learning about high-tech opportunities and visiting Ericsson. Meanwhile, several hundred of their classmates were in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
Silicon Valley’s quintessential “garage to riches” enterprise. Perhaps her biggest move has been HP’s 2002 merger with Compaq, the largest such marriage in high-tech history. Acknowledging the nay-saying and controversy that accompanied... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
IXP Heads to Haiti, Points Beyond
Rwanda, Silicon Valley (two), South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam. A student-led IXP to Haiti, on the one-year anniversary of that country’s devastating earthquake, will partner students with NGOs to assist in ongoing relief efforts and... View Details
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