Have we saved the best for last?  Even if you already have summer plans come learn why Forbes has called Spiceworks the “future of media” and Techcrunch dubbed us the “Facebook of IT”.

Spiceworks is a fast-growing, Austin-based [you know you want to be part of the buzz that is Austin...] company that’s blazing the trail in “social business”.  We connect nearly 1.5 million IT pros with over 200 tech companies while they do their jobs.  It’s a powerful combo that takes the best of consumer business models and applies it to a trillion dollar industry.

Backed by $29M in funding from top VCs, Spiceworks is adding to it’s product marketing and management ranks.  If you have a background in media, advertising, technology, or ecommerce, we want to hear from you.

Come hear Jay Hallberg (HBS, 2000), Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Spiceworks, talk about about how he helped make it all happen…and find out how you can get in on the action.

Date: Thursday, April 28th

Time: 3-4pm

Place: Aldrich 209

Do you want to own and lead a product line in an entrepreneurial setting? Have you ever wondered what it takes to win in a PM role? Or simply want advice on how to hunt the perfect PM role?

Come down and talk to the experts! Professor Tom Eisenmann will be moderating the discussion involving top PMs from the greater Boston area. Many of the panelists are HBS alums who can speak to taking PM roles with this background.

Date: April 28, 2011

Time: 3-4:30pm

Place: Hawes 201

If you have any questions, reach out to Deeksha at [email protected]

Finovate is a leading conference that showcases new innovations and
start-ups in the financial services space. TechMedia club has
negotiated a special discount for HBS students to Finovatespring in
San Francisco (May 10th-11th).

Please email Emily Zhang for the Harvard discount code: ezhang (at) mba2011.hbs.edu

Companies that have demoed in the past include Mint.com, Bling Nation,
and BillShrink.

http://www.finovate.com/spring2011/

thoughtbot, the HBS Rock Center, and the TechMedia Club invite you to 3 free afternoon workshops the first week of May. Harvard Business School students will learn how to run web applications on their laptops, make code changes, and deploy the app to production.

Why should I learn how to code?

According to startup lore[1], Ev, Biz, Goldman, and others at Odeo all had a running version of Twitter on their laptops while it was initially being created. They were not “developers per se” but could and did make code changes, pushing the code into version control and deploying it to production.

Sometimes by necessity and other times by personality, many great startups have a culture of “I can help with that.” Designers learn server-side code. MBAs learn design. Developers learn operations. The goal is minimize the time between coming up with an idea and having users try it.

What’s the schedule?

Tuesday, May 3, 3pm-5pm – configure laptops to run Rails app in development, get code

Wednesday, May 4, 3pm-5pm – apply universal design principles in HTML, change code

Friday, May 6, 3pm-5pm – commit to version control, push to production, deploy code

Friday, May 6, 5pm – drinks at John Harvard’s on thoughtbot

How can I sign up?

We have space for 30 students. It’s free for HBS students to attend. All 3 days are required. Please sign up here to reserve your spot and pay a refundable reservation payment.

More about thoughtbot

thoughtbot is a Boston web design, development, and training firm. We have consulted forabout three dozen startups. We run three SaaS products of our own for other developers.Weʼve written a large amount of open source code, run usersʼ groups at our office coveringRuby, mobile development, and web design, and care deeply about community.

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 3:00pm-4:30pm

Aldrich 11

From Cairo to Wisconsin: Learn how social media & mobile phones are fueling an unprecedented social revolution. Join Barry Libert, author of Social Nation and founder of Mzinga (a leading social business software company) for a discussion about the implications of social media and collective action for governance, leadership & organizational design. The session will be followed by desserts and an informal dialogue.

Check out Libert’s recent e-book on the topic here: http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Will-Be-Tweeted-ebook/dp/B004UBFTKG

HBS MBAs – join other grad students from CS, bio-engineering, applied physics, etc., across the river for some drinks and mingling!

Date:        Thursday 4/21

Time:        5pm

Location:   Lobby of Maxwell-Dworkin (33 Oxford St.)

Wednesday, April 13, 6:30-7:30 PM
Pierce 307
Beauty’s pizza served (both meat and veggie)

How much does Netflix spend on postage each year? According to
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings himself: about $600M
(http://www.quora.com/Netflix/How-much-does-Netflix-spend-on-postage-each-year).

Will the flu or common cold ever be eradicated like smallpox?
A virologist/immunologist explains exactly why medicine has conquered
one but not the others. Another biologist and an MD join in.

http://www.quora.com/Will-the-flu-or-common-cold-ever-be-eradicated-like-smallpox

It’d be difficult to find answers of this caliber anywhere else on the
web, as much of the world’s information today remains in peoples’
heads. Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and
answers created by everyone who uses it — a place for people to share
knowledge of all kinds.

At the same time, we’re a startup building technology that makes
engineers and designers amazingly productive at creating a highly
responsive website. Our founders include the first CTO of Facebook,
employees come from top schools including Harvard, MIT, Stanford,
Caltech, and CMU, and many have previously worked at Google, Facebook,
and Twitter. (Meet the team at http://www.quora.com/about/team .)

This Wednesday evening at 6:30, come to Pierce 307 to see a
demonstration of our technology and a technical talk about how it
works. Pizza from Beauty’s will be served.

Contact: Greg Price ’06-’07

Sponsored by Harvard Computer Society