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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
today, or even eighteen months ago,” says Tal Riesenfeld (MBA 2008), vice president of business development. Between his first and second years at HBS, Riesenfeld worked for Google in California, where he met a number of Silicon View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
and Elevest, a digital investment platform for women, Applegate pointed to Girls With Impact’s goal to “bend the curve” by training a million young women. Openshaw, a one-time motel maid turned Silicon View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s...
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing, instructive portrait of a man and the company he built into one of View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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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...
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- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a way financially to compete with the rest of Silicon Valley for talent, so we can retain top people for the long haul with attractive...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
challenges of this experience have been beyond anything I could have imagined." Just as his work straddles two industries, Verba's lifestyle spans two cities. "I live in San Francisco," he notes, "but I spend half my week in Los Angeles. The company is split between...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the Wall Street Journal that laid out his cybersecurity plans, President Obama noted the cultural challenge: “We’ll do more—including offering scholarships and forgiving student loans—to recruit the best talent from Silicon View Details
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
participants with a glimpse into the future of cyberspace. Next year, Kapoor may find himself an invited guest at that event, since he'll be working on content development at the @Home Network, a high-profile Silicon View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a capital campaign that will give the academy the staying power and the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a way financially to compete with...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
DOWNLOAD Flighty “It’s a premium app for frequent-fliers that gives you the fastest, most granular data on your flights. I jet between meetings in NYC and SF a few times a month, so Flighty is my welcome wingman!” —Alex Taussig (MBA 2009), partner at Lightspeed in...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Storrs Prescription: Build a Killer App Silicon Valley is known for being open to innovation, risk, and failure. At the opposite end of the table sits health care, with its strong emphasis on hierarchy,...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Most of the best businesses in Silicon Valley started with a very simple concept and extended into adjacent market segments as well as into global markets. Accel recently closed its second Chinese fund, this...
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- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
by taking the plunge we are going to show others and to help build the sector in such a way that more mainstream capital will come in.’” “In Silicon Valley terms,” says Michael Chu, “we need the people who...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
the trouble began in Silicon Valley and spread from there. Everybody was going to get rich! And that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
"Paper," says the Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a smile. "What would we do without it?" Cook's appreciation for this low-tech, everyday commodity, despite his company's positioning in a high-tech,...
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