Tag: Silicon Valley

  • Nation & World

    Tech on a plate

    Larissa Zimberoff, author of “Technically Food,” examined new ways of producing what we eat and drink in a discussion sponsored by the Food Literacy Project at Harvard.

    3 minutes
    Larissa Zimberoff.
  • Nation & World

    Will fraud jury believe Elizabeth Holmes?

    As the four-month fraud trial of Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes wraps up, Harvard Business School Professor Eugene Soltes, who studies corporate executives and white-collar crime, discusses the case.

    9 minutes
    Elizabeth Holmes.
  • Nation & World

    Visionary, criminal, or both?

    Eugene Soltes, a Harvard Business School expert on white-collar criminals, evaluates the case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

    6 minutes
    Elizabeth Holmes.
  • Nation & World

    Hidden figures

    Many technology firms insist they would love to hire more Black women but just don’t know where to find them. Two female security experts aren’t buying that, so they decided to show them just how easy it is.

    7 minutes
    Businesswoman at the office.
  • Nation & World

    How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace

    As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.

    9 minutes
    Man working on computer in casual setting.
  • Nation & World

    A social-networking website for student travelers

    Harvard students Luke Heine and Raphael Rouvinov built a new student travel meet up program, Summer Playbook, to help college students connect with each other all over the world. The app has drawn seed money from Silicon Valley.

    4 minutes
    Luke Heine and Raphael Rouvinov in their home office.
  • Nation & World

    A cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

    John Carreyrou, the reporter who broke the story about the problems of the blood-testing company Theranos, explains the rise and fall of the Silicon Valley firm, and sees it as a cautionary tale.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Renewing urban renewal

    Edward Glaeser, an economics, government, and public policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School, and Jerold Kayden, an urban planning and design professor at the Graduate School of Design, discuss findings from a new Brookings Institution study on the rise of innovation districts across the nation.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The next Google

    Google chairman Eric Schmidt talks about innovation and leadership in the digital age at the Harvard Kennedy School.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Nurturing the seeds of innovation

    The bond between Harvard and Silicon Valley is a close one. The region is home to a powerful network of alumni willing to offer mentorship to students and recent graduates who are dreaming big. Taking advantage of that network, SEAS and HBS recently came together to organize the trip to Palo Alto.

    6 minutes