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  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Video

Tech Club

  • Summer 2020
  • Article

Tech Clusters

By: William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Patents
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Tech Clusters

By: William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Patents
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  • 28 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Tech Clusters

Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
  • 11 May 2018
  • Video

Tech Club

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Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 05 May 2025
  • Blog Post

Meet the Tech Club

What We Do The mission of the Tech Club is to educate the HBS community on the latest technology trends and essential industry skills. Each year, we provide robust recruiting opportunities and foster meaningful social and professional... View Details
Keywords: Technology; General High Technology; Other Technology
  • June 2006 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

Tech Data Corporation

Tech Data is a global supplier of logistics management services and one of the world's largest distributors of information technology equipment. Operational execution is key for the company, which has gross margins in the 5% range. At the end of 2005, the company had... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Information Infrastructure; Operations; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

At HBS, the Tech Club aims to educate the community on the latest technology trends and skills, to facilitate recruiting opportunities, and to foster social and professional networking within HBS, greater Harvard, and the Boston area. The... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Tech Community at HBS

In this Facebook Live conversation about the tech community at HBS, David Homa, the Director of the HBS Digital Initiative, and current students discuss the tech community here and resources available to... View Details
  • Video

Tech Community Facebook Live

  • May 2024
  • Supplement

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (B): The 2024 Tech Hub Proposal

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City
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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Tech Trekker

picture-framing shop on the East Coast. After graduating, she started a custom photo lab in Cambridge and in 1977 began raising a family. Lang returned to high tech in 1982, when she joined Symbolics, the emerging leader in computer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • News

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

  • 15 Apr 2014

2+2 Information Session: Northwestern University

This information session is an opportunity for bachelor and master degree students to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program and ask questions to an Admissions Board Member. The session will take place at 6:00 PM in TECH LR4, 2145 Sheridan... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2020
  • News

The origins of tech clusters

  • March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Layoffs in the Tech Industry: 2022–2023

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Marilyn Morgan Westner
This case examines the mass layoffs that swept through the tech industry (2022-2023) through the lens of four companies: Twitter, Stripe, Meta, and Google. How these companies implemented workforce change through mass layoffs raises critical questions applicable beyond... View Details
Keywords: Layoffs; Human Resource Management; Workforce Reductions; Ethics; Human Resources; Management; Values and Beliefs; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience

(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

me to find out.   Enter WesTrek. For over 20 years, the Tech Club has hosted WesTrek, a 3-day excursion during which 140 HBS students visit over 60 startups, big tech companies, and VCs across the Bay Area.... View Details
  • Winter 2019
  • Article

Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

By: Susan Athey and Michael Luca
As technology platforms have created new markets and new ways of acquiring information, economists have come to play an increasingly central role in tech companies—tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years,... View Details
Keywords: Technology Companies; Economists; Digital Platforms; Jobs and Positions; Competency and Skills; Technology Industry
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