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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
may be able to settle in less-expensive regions and use crowdsourcing software and other platforms to stay on top while giving employees a better quality of life by allowing them to live in areas with lower-priced housing, Kerr says. “The craziness that says ‘I must be... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
"I would not highlight the technology for the sake of technology," he cautioned. "Most VCs in Silicon Valley are enamored with technology. But at the end of the day, they really don't give a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
original notion. Most important, they say, although creativity may seem most prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it can be learned and managed in every kind of organization. Of particular... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
direct reports, as well as the direct reports of their peers. This pushes managers to work together to determine which employees to recommend for new opportunities across teams. Build a culture of innovation, learning, and recognition To create an innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
by expanding into new geographies, product categories, and distribution channels. They have also recently developed several strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley firms to expand into an array of digital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Silicon Valley dot-comers. This seemed to be everybody's idea of success. A Nation Rethinks Success After the market crash in 2000, there was talk that Moore's Law had reached its theoretical limits and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
"operating team" that is an order of magnitude larger than that of any other VC firm. Furthermore, the operating team aims to not only assist a16z portfolio companies, but also to be broadly helpful to all parties in the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis/ar/1 Cases & Course MaterialsDigital Chocolate Linda A. Hill and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 410-049 Trip Hawkins founded Digital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inflection point in industrial capitalism, in which there's been widespread exuberance and some bad bets made to this point, but in which a range of more positive outcomes are on the way. Lorsch: To me, the trouble began in Silicon View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
"phantom stock" (typically, bonuses based on the growth in the new units' performance). Instead, XTV insisted that the employees receive options to buy real shares in the venture-backed companies, in line with traditional View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
met a number of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and came away with "a gut feeling that I could build my own company." So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/806101-PDF-ENG PunchTab, Inc. Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-033 PunchTab was a Silicon Valley start-up, founded in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
life story but a fascinating analysis of how Grove attacks problems. Born in Hungary of Jewish background in 1936, Andras Istvan Grof survived the Nazis only to face the Soviet invasion of his country. He fled to America at age twenty, studied engineering, and arrived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
community service activities during a one-week period. It's a far larger project than the organization has ever undertaken and one requiring many added resources. Among the risks is the possible damage to the HandsOn reputation among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
appreciate how much HBS has already done to advance a global agenda in the MBA Program. Beginning in 1996, HBS has opened six research centers that today facilitate faculty research in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Silicon View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
of those companies. We interviewed the people in the companies twice, once in the year 2000, and then we came back approximately a year later. Then we interviewed about thirty-two informants, people who were grand old gurus in the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel