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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
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 phone rang. It was our data center...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
of those companies. We interviewed the people in the companies twice, once in the year 2000, and then we came back approximately a year later. Then we interviewed about thirty-two informants, people who were grand old gurus in the Silicon...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
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 Valley and...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
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Print View - Course Catalog
experimentation, minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston that receive...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate post-WWII efforts to establish the American Research and Development Corporation created a precedent for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 812-133 For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
research site, in California's Silicon Valley. The Global Initiative will be taking a big step forward this year with the launching of the first in a series of overseas research offices. The first such site, in Hong Kong, is due to open...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the lucky situation where I could help out building the Silicon Valley presence of SAP, and that led me through new endeavors, like online marketplaces, software as a service, as it got started. I was able then to lead also from a...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
class, we’ve come to think about entrepreneurs differently. “Today,” Sahlman says, grinning, “the implications of failure are de minimis. Assuming that you didn’t lie, cheat, or steal, or personally cause the collapse of the venture, you can fail and get away with it....
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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 smallest villages and its...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
computing, the number of new startups has accelerated over the last decade across tech centers in Silicon Valley, Israel, India, and China. From Startup to Exit shares the knowledge that serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni has gained...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
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, training, and experience—no...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
struggling to find jobs go take huge starting salaries out in Silicon Valley. And I was like, “Maybe we can start a business that makes this a whole lot more fair kind of regardless of what school you go to. Here my friends are so smart...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
have been economically impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Using two of the organization's locations to serve as pop-up takeout operations, the Clubs are serving more than 2,000 free meals a night. Those receiving the food—at least half of whom are undocumented...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
versus somebody who’s not. So that’s where companies are looking to solve that problem, like they do in Silicon Valley, especially with artificial intelligence. And here, if we can eliminate the human from this and actually use metrics on...
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