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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
physics. Learned how to design chips. And I came out to Silicon Valley as it was forming in the mid '80s. And I think because I was in the right place at the right time, it put me on a series of foundational... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
“Performer” mind-set. Performers can excel in well-defined areas and are rewarded by big companies, but Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models and trust their insights enough to make game-changing bets. From View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided to return to Washington, DC, her hometown, and get involved... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during the 2009 View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
action organization — to shape public policy on issues ranging from overfishing to suburban sprawl. Ullman did extensive research on environmental nonprofits before settling on E2, launched in Silicon Valley... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
acknowledges. Some countries lack the necessary institutional structures. And even the startup hubs—Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, and Istanbul—lack one element that has made Silicon Valley such a success: a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
host for January's WesTrek, a recruiting and networking event in Silicon Valley attended by almost 250 HBS students. In the global realm, our new Asia Pacific research office, due to open this fall in Hong... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of venture-backed companies among its... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
Argentina's farmers now have access to the Internet and are using it on a regular basis. Agropool is funded by Tempo 2, a Silicon Valley firm that has partnered with Argentine businesses to provide strategic... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
were also important themes of a popular March 20 breakout session titled "The Silicon Valley Miracle." This panel discussion was led off by Gordon Moore, cofounder and chairman of Intel and one of the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discouraged. After graduating from Harvard College in 1997, she arrived in Silicon Valley just as the Internet began to enter everyday life. Maybank worked as an investment banker on some of the first... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Professor Jeffrey F. Rayport and John Hagel III (MBA '77, JD '78), a principal in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office, detail how managers will resolve the upcoming tug-of-war over this valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on... 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... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
consider to be a classic innovation community. The same way we think of Silicon Valley now, or maybe Detroit in the 1920s with the automobile industry. Okay, there's all these musicians, there's all this... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
silicon integrated circuit for which Silicon Valley is named and cofounder of Intel. Did you uncover similarities among these businessmen that may have foretold their future... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
in deep discussion—is no different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
idea create value and allow you to do something that you couldn’t before? “I’ve seen most of the business plans in Silicon Valley over the last 20 years, and usually not all of these things are at work,” she... View Details