Harvard Business School

Mark Pincus Reveals His Playbook as Zynga Hits the Road (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 2, 2011 at 4:20 am PT

Here’s the online presentation and video of Zynga’s CEO Mark Pincus, who is hitting the road next week to take a company public for the second time in his career.

Is Turkey the Next Big Market Opportunity?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 10, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

Nope, it’s not China or India. It’s Turkey. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, best known for investing in Google, Amazon, Twitter and Zynga, has made its first investment in Turkey.

Rent the Runway Gets $15 Million From Kleiner Perkins to Be the Netflix of Fashion

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 23, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

Rent the Runway is a New York-based start-up that lets you look like a million bucks while spending much less. Instead, women rent dresses for much less and then send them back in prepaid envelopes–no dry cleaning necessary.

Google Confirms That Groupon COO Will Be Google's Margo Georgiadis

Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:14 am PT

Margo Georgiadis, VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered. Besides COO, BoomTown will officially bestow the title of “Chief Cat Wrangler” on her in recognition of the massive organizational job ahead of her at the notoriously chaotic start-up.

Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company. But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.

New Miramax CEO Lang Talks Digital Options for Movie Company

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2010 at 5:02 am PT

While the news has been be out there for a month, Miramax officially confirmed this morning that former News Corp. exec Mike Lang was named CEO of the Hollywood movie company. What will be interesting about that for digital content players will be to see exactly what the man who was deeply involved in deals to buy the Myspace social networking site and also create the Hulu premium video service will do with Miramax’s rich trove of more than 700 award-winning films in its movie library.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on May 30, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

No position in a company is more important than the CEO, and as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs, as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction. By describing how Andreessen Horowitz evaluates CEOs, I am at the same time describing what I think the job of the CEO is.

The Huffington Post Goes to Harvard Business School–As a Case Study, That Is!

Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2010 at 11:17 am PT

While a lot of people doubted Arianna Huffington when she co-founded her eponymous blog site many years ago, she can add another I-told-you-so to the pile after today’s induction of the Huffington Post as an official Harvard Business School case study. Huffington, as well we HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau have been at the school today, answering questions from the 900 students to whom the case study has been presented.

Yahoo Can Relax a Little (But Just a Little)–This Year's BoomTown Obsession Might Have to Be AT&T

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 7:03 am PT

Of all the major issues to think about in the digital sector over the next year, perhaps the most important to focus on will be the mobile space. That’s why the swirl of controversy around the inability of AT&T to maintain a reliable network for users of the Apple iPhone is perhaps the flashpoint story of the coming year. In other words, dropped calls and glitchy apps are more than just annoying–see my video after the jump–they’re holding back a key spark of future innovation for computing.