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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Silicon Valley. Over these next few episodes, we’ll explore the ideas at the heart of Alex’s book, detailing how entrepreneurs and ecosystems across the globe are challenging the Silicon Valley model—and explaining what these global View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Another in a series of occasional...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
100,000 jobs and $82 billion worth of value. Amazon famously entered the space in 2013, announcing plans to use drones for its 30-minute delivery service, but there’s plenty of startup activity, too. Hawk Aerial, launched last year by CEO...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Pyramid Scheme
Start with a 6,000-square-foot space. Pack it with some $1 million of high-tech sound effects and visuals to create a pulsing, interactive world that combines elements of video games, theme parks, and museums. Make one and all who enter...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean start-up, a methodology that has proven successful for many young high-tech companies. Are You a Level-Six Leader? Asking the question, Whom do you serve? is a...
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- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
couple of weeks, our host shot back, "A couple of weeks! Put something down on a sheet of paper and give to me before you leave today." We received the money in early June, just as the entire high-tech bubble was popping,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Princeton University Press), draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential start-ups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
School - both in and out of the classroom - to fit his professional goals. For instance, as one of ten HBS students chosen for the Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program, he spent last summer in India at Aditi Technologies, a software View Details
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Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
make a profit. And then two cents, and then four, and then eight." In 2000, Siebel's revenues were $1.79 billion. "This was one of the most well-attended speaker events we've ever organized," said Jacobsohn. "It was a great opportunity for HBS alumni to come together,...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
on the next big thing, Dahod marries technological understanding with management expertise to solve high-tech problems and build cutting-edge companies. With five advanced degrees and five successful View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
high-tech materials feed directly into Faction’s product design. Faction also hits the aspirational note so many products use to their advantage. You may not be interested in leaving the trail to land a kangaroo flip, but wouldn’t you...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), he is known for backing startups that presaged entire...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
established its initial offices in London, Paris, and Chicago, concentrating on placements for entrepreneurial ventures for almost a decade before setting up its first fund in Great Britain in 1981 to invest in early-stage high-tech...
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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and similar trends are not found in institutions constrained from agglomerating (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
in his book, The End of Work. More recently, Jaron Lanier concluded that job-destroying productivity leading to inequality occurs when all of us contribute information about ourselves gratis on the Internet to a few high-tech...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
Ina Foalea leads a brainstorming session in Morris Hall during this year’s Startup Lockdown. It is 6:30 p.m. on the Wednesday of Spring Break. But Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) is in work mode as she stretches out on the couch in the first-floor...
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