Filter Results:
(288)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(829)
- People (5)
- News (366)
- Research (288)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (155)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(829)
- People (5)
- News (366)
- Research (288)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (155)
Sort by
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
team with data scientists and others trained in computer science, math, statistics, and physics, including many who held doctorates. To attract the best people, Target knew it had to keep at least part of its data operation in Silicon... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
venture capitalists from leading firms in Silicon Valley. The following are excerpts from their responses. Russell Siegelman (hbs Mba '89) Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers The most important requirement is a large market... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
affect innovation? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Trillion Dollar Coach: Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell (HarperCollins,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
feed growth, even if their competitors are also on the same block. Detroit and Silicon Valley, likewise, provided valuable clusters of talent and suppliers where, Alcácer realized, "whenever you saw one firm, you saw the other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
integrated computer industry, and was able to specialize in creating the core component of computing—the microprocessor. And then he championed that silicon part with the famous "Intel Inside" marketing campaign. "The... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
areas are Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York City, and Washington DC. Indianapolis ranked 81 in 2012, 58 in 2006, and 95 in 2000. Among the lowest ranked in 2018, Little Rock, Arkansas was number 128 in 2012, 122 in 2006, and 129 in 2000.... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
lumping them all together. That said, the success of the Silicon Valley community and the massive wealth that some people have accumulated have caught the eye of India. And as in most things in life, timing is everything: In some sense... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
silicon chip, Analog would sell an answer." “Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career,” they write. However, Tushman and Binns explain in the following Q&A, explorers are the ones who lead established... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
Santa Clara County into Silicon Valley. “Countries are beginning to realize—Israel being one of them—that they need to engage in public diplomacy, not just a foreign diplomacy, and in place branding, not just political advocacy, ” says... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has consulted with WeWork and other companies in View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
product at the lowest price" About 22 percent of the world's 300 mm silicon wafer supply came from the Shin-Etsu Handotai's Shirakawa plant in Fukushima prefecture, and 60 percent of critical auto parts were in the same area, says... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Former Theranos employees began testifying this week against Elizabeth Holmes, the once-celebrated biotech’s founder and CEO, in a criminal trial that has Silicon Valley worried. In opening statements last week, federal prosecutors... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
practitioners of innovation and creativity. Given their importance for global economic health and progress, the questions are worth pondering. One highly successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur will ask whether management is a net positive... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
prospective investors if they decide to launch another new venture. In many parts of the world, failed founders are stigmatized, but fortunately, in Silicon Valley and some other startup ecosystems, investors are more forgiving. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
increase over the last 30 years. That number topped 20 percent in some industries, such as in technology, and more than 25 percent in some locations, such as Silicon Valley. “We were expecting it to go up, but not by that much,” Koning... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo