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      The Origins and Development of Silicon Valley
      Leslie Berlin, <i>Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age</i>
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      • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
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      Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top

      By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Susan Seligson
      After hitting an all-time low in 2008, Domino’s Pizza underwent a vigorous rebranding, product development, and embraced innovative technologies to become the world’s leading international fast-food retailer. Domino’s considered itself as much a tech company as it was...  View Details
      Keywords: Digital Marketing; Digital Technology; Innovation; Scaling; Data Analytics; Turnaround; Technological Innovation; Technology; Strategy; Management; Marketing; Operations; Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Analysis; Performance; Customers; Growth And Development; Competitive Advantage; Employees; Training; Leadership Development; Food And Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Susan Seligson. "Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top." Harvard Business School Case 421-057, January 2021. (Revised February 2021.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

      By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
      The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Innovation And Invention; Foreign Direct Investment; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy; United States
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      Akcigit, Ufuk, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend, and Yulia Zhestkova. "Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-043, September 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Supplement

      Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

      By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the...  View Details
      Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Technology Platform; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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      Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-027, August 2020.
      • Summer 2020
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      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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      Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Tech Clusters." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 50–76.
      • 2020
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      Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

      By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
      When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.

      We offer a different worldview. We argue that...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Skills; Belonging; Leadership; Management Skills; Trust; Organizational Culture
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      Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
      • May 2020
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      M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation

      By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover
      M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Disruption; Transformation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms And Management; Innovation And Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Japan; United States
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      Palepu, Krishna, and Allison M. Ciechanover. "M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 120-061, May 2020.
      • April 2020
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      Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)

      By: Andy Wu and David Wang
      With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for...  View Details
      Keywords: Mergers And Acquisitions; Integration; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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      Wu, Andy, and David Wang. "Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration (B)." Harvard Business School Case 720-466, April 2020.
      • April 2020
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      Open Innovation at Fujitsu (C)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      This follow-on case study provides a multi-year update on the achievements of the Open Innovation Gateway (OIG). Over time, OIG honed a process that enabled open innovation. It developed three streams of activities, namely co-creation projects with major customers and...  View Details
      Keywords: Open Innovation; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Change Management; Relationships; Leadership Development
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-126, April 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in America

      By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Ines Black
      Research suggests that increased digitization of the labor market combined with the changing demand for skill has altered the job-search process. In this article, we argue that these changes have led to increased investments in firm-driven search for talent (or...  View Details
      Keywords: Hiring; Referrals; Outbound Recruiting; Labor Markets; Selection And Staffing; Networks; Recruitment; Strategy; United States
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      Koning, Rembrand, Sharique Hasan, and Ines Black. "Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in America." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3576498, April 2020.
      • February 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Anomalie

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
      In early 2019, the founders of Anomalie, an online direct-to-consumer provider of bridal gowns, have just agreed to an $13.6 million Series A investment from a Silicon Valley VC. They are considering three major initiatives as they move forward. (1) To scale their...  View Details
      Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Entrepreneurship; Online Technology; Growth And Development Strategy; Decision Choices And Conditions; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Technology Industry
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      Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Thomas O. Jones. "Anomalie." Harvard Business School Case 820-100, February 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • December 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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      Impossible Foods

      By: Jose B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
      Impossible Foods founder and CEO Pat Brown started the company out of concern over livestock production’s impact on climate change. Impossible’s mission is to end consumption of animals by 2035, and its strategy is to develop and market plant-based foods so similar to...  View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Consumer Behavior; Behavior; Venture Capital; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Production; Product Development; Product Positioning; Growth Management; Global Strategy; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Animal-based Agribusiness; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Food And Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China; Asia; California; Hong Kong; Taiwan
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      Alvarez, Jose B., and Natalie Kindred. "Impossible Foods." Harvard Business School Case 520-046, December 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
      • 2020
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      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; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Industry Clusters; Innovation And Invention; Entrepreneurship; Patents
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      Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Tech Clusters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-063, November 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
      • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
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      NewView Capital and Venture Capital Secondaries

      By: Shai Bernstein, Ramana Nanda and Allison Ciechanover
      While still a general partner at Silicon Valley–based New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Ravi Viswanathan considered the challenges presented by evolving market dynamics in the venture capital space. Startups were staying private longer, which led to limited partners...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Strategy
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      Bernstein, Shai, Ramana Nanda, and Allison Ciechanover. "NewView Capital and Venture Capital Secondaries." Harvard Business School Case 820-038, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
      • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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      Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

      By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
      In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of...  View Details
      Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent And Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation And Management; Human Resources; Equality And Inequality; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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      Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Case 820-048, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
      • 2019
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      VC: An American History

      By: Tom Nicholas
      An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation And Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020.)
      • 2019
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      The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

      By: Shoshana Zuboff
      In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in...  View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Profiling; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting And Prediction; Information Technology; Power And Influence; Ethics; Society; Transformation
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      Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.
      • Summer 2018
      • Book Review

      Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Leslie Berlin's book Troublemakers, is an engaging and insightful people-first exploration of the roots of Silicon Valley, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Berlin portrays seven individuals who played important roles at critical junctures in the...  View Details
      Keywords: Silicon Valley; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; History; California
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      Sahlman, William A. "Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age." Business History Review 92, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 343–353.
      • April 2018
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      Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration

      By: Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and David Wang
      With more than 72,000 employees and revenues approaching the $50B mark, Cisco Systems is one of the largest information technology and networking firms globally. As the company grew and expanded into different lines of businesses, Cisco consistently looked outwards for...  View Details
      Keywords: Mergers And Acquisitions; Integration; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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      Wu, Andy, George Gonzalez, and David Wang. "Cisco Systems and OpenDNS: Strategic Integration." Harvard Business School Case 718-489, April 2018.
      • 2016
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      The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America

      By: Tom Nicholas
      The United States has developed an unparalleled environment for the provision of high-tech investment finance. Today it is reflected in the strength of agglomeration economies in Silicon Valley, but historically its origins lay in the East Coast. Notably, immediate...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Technology; History; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom. "The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America." In Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today, edited by David Chambers and Elroy Dimson, 227–241. CFA Institute Research Foundation, 2016.
      • November 2016 (Revised May 2017)
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      Hyperloop One

      By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, Robert White, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
      This case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic pod-in-tube transportation technology, from concept to transformative reality via Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital, both companies he...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Transportation; Startup; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Finance; Transportation; Product Development; Innovation And Invention; Transportation Industry
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      Sahlman, William A., Ramana Nanda, Robert White, Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Hyperloop One." Harvard Business School Case 817-027, November 2016. (Revised May 2017.)
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