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- 28 May 2020
- News
Remote Work Has Its Perks, Until You Want a Promotion
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Begin with Trust
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap
year in a row, we packed up a team from our office and headed west for a two-day visit during Spring Break. Our goals were to: 1) Create a centralized place to network with HBS alumni, current students, and recruiters on the West Coast. 2) Coordinate school-facilitated...
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All Industries
- October 2015 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
UPower Technologies Inc.
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Liz Kind
The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend Palo Alto–based Y Combinator's accelerator program to focus on building a "mini" nuclear reactor that would produce...
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Nuclear;
Nuclear Energy;
Nuclear Power;
Energy Markets;
New Nuclear;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Business & Government Relations;
Off-grid;
Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Liz Kind. "UPower Technologies Inc." Harvard Business School Case 816-054, October 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
- January 2013 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
The Origins and Development of Silicon Valley
By: Tom Nicholas and James Lee
On October 1, 1891, as Senator Leland Stanford cut the ribbon at the ceremony gifting 8,000-acres of his Palo Alto, California, stock farm to a new, 559-student university bearing his name and seeking to produce "useful" in addition to "cultured" graduates, the...
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Nicholas, Tom, and James Lee. "The Origins and Development of Silicon Valley." Harvard Business School Case 813-098, January 2013. (Revised March 2022.)
- 30 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
- February 2015
- Case
Founder Field Day
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ramana Nanda and Nathaniel Burbank
Branded as the "Millennial firm for Millennials," Mike Rothenberg founded Rothenberg Ventures (RV) in 2012 while earning his MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS). Over the following 24 months, Rothenberg raised $20 million and built a venture capital firm that made...
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Finance;
Startups;
Seed-investing;
Micro-VC;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Ramana Nanda, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Founder Field Day." Harvard Business School Case 815-101, February 2015.
- 07 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Living Off Campus at HBS
While 65% of HBS students live on campus, many choose to live in the surrounding areas of Boston and Cambridge. Cameron Farkas and Joe Kiernan are two such students – and would have it no other way. Here’s what they enjoy the most about...
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- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization and Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
United States
Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- May 2021
- Teaching Plan
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-018. For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization and Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
San Francisco
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
review, new topics are chosen through a review process oriented to frontier areas of science, and the GRC format fosters intimacy among participants even as the overall size of the scientific enterprise expands. More generally, we seek to...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 35-45 Hours Download full syllabus 10-12 hrs Module 1 A Process Perspective on Management Differentiate...
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Annora Wang
What was the shape of your career before pursuing your MBA? I worked in finance, on Wall Street. I enjoyed analysis, but wasn’t always interested in the types of business I got involved in. As an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, I had been...
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Entertainment / Media
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
1960s Bay Area counterculture, and the other, a daughter of former enslaved people born after the Civil War, both built iconic companies by passionately championing their ideas and pushing for growth....
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by Avery Forman
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Global Ambition
startup. “So many of our classmates were also working in the Bay Area. It was an amazing summer,” remembers Kao, who prior to HBS attended Wellesley College and then spent four years at Goldman Sachs. “I was working for a startup that...
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Recent Alumni Regional Events - Alumni
Programs & Events Recent Alumni Regional Events Whether it’s been six months or ten years since you graduated from HBS, it’s never too soon (or too late!) to tap into the alumni network. Especially, when HBS comes to you! If you live in or travel to Atlanta, NYC, the...
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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral
economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20192019 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant bootlegging and organized crime Influence: Medium 30193019 Escapism...
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Trends - Recruiting
Texas 5% 5% 4% 4% 5% Other Southwest 1% <1% 1% <1% 2% West (US) 26% 25% 22% 24% 16% California - Bay Area 20% 15% 13% 15% 9% California - Los Angeles Area 3% 6% 5% 5% 4%...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
with Ryan Frick, with whom he worked previously at SAC Capital Advisors. Chandler, a 2000 graduate of Harvard College, was an assistant general counsel at Oak Hill Capital Partners before the couple moved to the Bay View Details