Bridging the Gap Between Boston & Beijing: The Qihoo 360 Story – Dec 10th

November 30, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by daniel  |  Events

Highland Capital Partners is honored to welcome one of China’s most noteworthy tech entrepreneurs, Hongyi Zhou, the CEO of Qihoo 360 (NYSE: QIHU) to Cambridge for a special lecture for the Chinese entrepreneurial, technology and business community.

Presenting Bridging the Gap Between Boston & Beijing: The Qihoo 360 Story, Hongyi will talk about how the company started, its early growth and eventual emergence as China’s third largest Internet company.  He’ll discuss the opportunities for the company going forward and how it plans to maximize growth in China.   Hongyi will also be available for audience Q&A around Qihoo 360, his entrepreneurial journey in China, and building and scaling organizations.

Saturday, December 10th at the Marriott Boston Cambridge Hotel, 50 Broadway, Kendall Square, Cambridge. Register at https://qihoo360.eventbrite.com

Hongyi is particularly interested in meeting Chinese speaking entrepreneurs and engineers who are interested in returning to China to work at the country’s third largest Internet company.

Plug and Play’s Startup Camp – 2012 Winter Session

November 30, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by deeksha  |  Events

Plug and Play’s Startup Camp – 2012 Winter Session

Plug and Play Tech Center

440 N Wolfe Rd

Sunnyvale, CA 94085

 

Plug and Play Tech Center is hosting Plug and Play Startup Camp 2012. They would love to have HBS represented in their 2012 winter session and therefore welcome all student entrepreneurs and university startups to apply!

 

Plug and Play Startup Camp is an intensive 10-week program designed to immerse university startups and entrepreneurs into the Silicon Valley environment through a combination of structured workshops, speaker series, mentorship sessions as well as active coaching.

Plug and Play Tech Center is a thriving Silicon Valley community of over 300 startups from all over the world. Their mission is to help startups grow.

 

The summer 2011 program concluded with the Startup Camp EXPO, a demo day that connected the venture capital and angel investor community with Startup Camp companies and provided them additional exposure. At the demo day, funding was committed to 4 of the participating companies! 10 companies comprising of teams from Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Santa Clara, UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Berkeley graduated this summer. This included companies in the consumer-web, e-commerce, mobile, crowd sourcing and software space.

 

Visit our website for more information: http://www.plugandplaystartupcamp.com

 

APPLY NOW! Program launches January 9th

Please contact Carolina Gonzalez with any questions, [email protected]

Strategic Planning Analyst Opportunity at Medallia

November 29, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by Ishan  |  News

Please see below for a Strategic Planning Analyst opportunity at Medallia, a fast-growing Palo Alto based company.  Please contact Ann Barrile ([email protected]) if interested.

 

Role: 

Strategic Planning Analyst will be part of the Strategic Planning team and play a key role in the future growth of Medallia. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to work closely with executive management.

 

Company:


Medallia is the leader in an emerging technology category—Enterprise Feedback Management—that is the fastest growing segment of CRM and likely to become as essential to companies as ERP  systems.  We were just named the leader in our category by Forrester in its first ever Wave report on the industry.

We also offer:

  • A great place to work: 95% of employees recommend us, we enjoy low turnover, and we were voted a top 25 place to work in the Bay Area in 2010.
  • Upside potential: we are just closing our first-ever funding with a top VC to increase our already high growth rate and accelerate our pace to IPO.
  • Great customers: 25% of our customers are on Fortune 500’s list of the most admired companies in the world and a substantial number of our remaining customers are making the transition to “most admired.”
  • A great product: our product is beloved by customers.  We have almost no customer churn and a customer satisfaction rate that is unparalleled in the enterprise software space.

Main responsibilities:

      

  • Provide thought leadership by synthesizing inputs from multiple sources, analyzing key performance indicators for trends and changes, and preparing persuasive executive-ready materials that contain meaningful insights and actionable recommendations.
  • Lead cross-functional teams on executive-sponsored projects that draw from various divisions in the company.
  • Prepare monthly operational and financial metrics report for executive management.
  • Create presentations for the Board of Directors.
  • Help division heads in resource planning and in optimization, profitability, and pricing analysis.
  • Build short-term and long-term operating and forecasting models.
  • Conduct industry research and competitive analysis.

Key skills & experience:



  • BA or BS with evidence of stellar academic performance: top tier university, high GPA, academic honors, high test scores, professor recommendations and/or other
.
  • Demonstrated analytical experience: background in investment banking, strategic consulting, or corporate development a plus
.
  • Excellent analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills
.
  • Strong knowledge of finance, comfortable building comprehensive financial models
.
  • Strong knowledge of MS Office applications
.
  • Effective written and verbal skills; able to present to all levels in the organization
.
  • Able to work both independently and as a member of multiple teams
.
  • Positive personality; self starter with passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results
.
  • Strong skills in problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking.

 

 

 

American Express webinar event: “Digitizing a Premium Brand” – Nov. 30, 6-7pm

November 28, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by deeksha  |  Events

Join American Express for a webinar

Digitizing a Premium Brand

November 30, 2011

6-7pm EST

 

Learn more about your opportunity to be one of our

2012 Digital Commerce Summer Interns.

 

Hear from business leaders within American Express about how we are accelerating our development of alternative payments, mobile capabilities and partnerships, while adapting our existing products and services for the digital marketplace.

 

RSVP:

https://cossprereg.btci.com/prereg/key.process?key=PYDW3NNTN

 

To access the webinar on Nov. 30:

Dial-In: 1-866-853-0976; Passcode: 48171426

Copy & Paste the below information into your browser:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/axp/join?id=TN9W34&role=attend&pw=r{=`cq2T

Meeting ID: TN9W34
Entry Code: r{=`cq2T
Be sure to dial-in 5-10 minutes before event start time.

 

Are you creative? A chance to win $50 gift card

November 27, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by Melody  |  Events

Help 3 of your HBS classmates who are working on a start-up by suggesting a company name and be awarded with a $50 gift card if your submission is selected! We are offering two such prizes!

Here are some specifics to help you:

Company positioning: For men and women looking for affordable high-quality prescription eyewear, Company X is the retailer of choice because it is the only provider of modern-classic inspired range of styles – all $100 – delivered via an online consumer-friendly interface and promising exceptional customer service.

Product: Company X will be an e-commerce site that sells, fits, and delivers its own brand of high-quality prescription eyewear.

  • We consider our brand as being analogous with timeless, classic apparel brands such as J. Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Levis.
  • We also aspire to create a simple, intuitive online purchasing experience with exceptional customer service.

Target: Between the ages of 24 and 35, also known as the “golden age” as this group is the most happy, confident and keen to try new technology. Psychographic traits that describe our target customer are: intelligent, sophisticated, successful, ambitious, confident, and curious. These consumers are graduate students and working professionals (i.e. in corporate, finance, and consulting jobs).

Note: please do not limit the name to vision/eyewear as we would like to be able to expand the brand at a later date.

Please submit ideas to [email protected] until Sunday Dec 11th!

Good Luck!

Product Manager Opportunity at TinyCo

November 25, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by Katie  |  News

TinyCo is a fast-growing, profitable start-up in San Francisco that makes beautiful, fun, and engaging mobile games.  We’re building a high-caliber team of engineers, designers, artists, and business folks who believe in the wonder and potential of mobile social gaming.  We’re still a small start-up where you can make things happen quickly. In our fast-paced environment, games can go from idea to phone in mere weeks.

We are looking for a sharp and disciplined product manager who will own and manage a mobile game, taking it from concept through to live operations.  We’ll be the best team you’ve ever worked with!

To apply, send your resume and cover letter to Laurie Deneschuk at [email protected]

PRODUCT MANAGER

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own product development, strategic vision and business ops for new or an existing game
  • Become the authority in the psychology of games
  • Build a comprehensive understanding of what features and themes increase user engagement
  • Provide insight on game mechanics and improve hypotheses/models by mining user data
  • Coordinate and inspire engineering and design teams – and LOVE it!

REQUIREMENTS

  • You love games! You have a passion for creating new game features and playing computer games.
  • 2 to 5 years of experience as a product manager in the consumer web, social, mobile or game development space
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills with an emphasis on metrics driven decision making
  • Strategic thinker who loves creating incredible user experiences
  • Can graphically create wire-frames and give interface direction to UI team
  • Demonstrate your contribution to a successful project or product in the past

NICE TO HAVE

  • Previous start-up experience
  • Social, online and/or iPhone/Android product management experience.
  • BA/BS degree – CS/EE/Engineering/Math/Statistics/Economics degree
  • Knowledge of mobile technology — its boundaries and unique potential as it applies to games.

We are awesome! You want to work here.

MCPG conference on Sunday, December 4th

November 22, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by deeksha  |  Events

[MCPG CONFERENCE] Buy Tickets to MCPG Conference, Sunday, Dec. 4

Conference is Sunday, December 4. To purchase: hbsmarketingconference.com

Conference highlights:

Þ    Keynote speech by CMO of Major League Soccer on how to use consumer data to drive personalized marketing messages in sports, CPG, and other marketing industries.

Þ    Choose your own industry track based on your interests, including industry expert panels such as:

  • CPG/Retail: Refreshing Your Brand: Reinvigorate an established image to make your brand always new, always relevant

Company Representation:

General Mills

Kraft

P&G

Staples

Keurig

Edelman

AB/InBev

EOS

 

  • Sports/Entertainment: Playing the Social Media Field:  How companies, teams, and players use media websites to build customer bases, enthusiasm, and loyalty

Company Representation:

Evan Lysacek

FanBridge/Team Epic

Activ8Social

ESPN Boston

Fanlime

5 Star Basketball

NFL

 

  • Technology: Your Brand, Their Power: Harness user – generated content and word of mouth to empower your brand

Company Representation:

Digitas

Digital Marketing Works

American Express

Amazon

Google

 

Þ    Interactive marketing workshops and expert panels led by top marketing professionals from Digitas, General Mills, Google, Amazon, AB/InBev, Kraft, Nike, & more

Þ    Networking lunch and post-conference networking happy hour with these firms and many more!

 

MIT / HBS Seattle Trek – January 2-3, 2012

November 22, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by sonia  |  Events

HBS will be joining forces with MIT this year for the TechMedia Club Seattle Trek!  The Trek will take place January 2-3, 2012.

Company visits include Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Adobe, T-Mobile, and potentially others.

—Sign up at http://goo.gl/13VJi by December 3 and specify ‘Seattle Trek’ on the poll.  Spots are limited to 30 ppl!

Fees & Details

  • $50 refundable deposit
  • $100 Trek fee covers rental cars, gifts for company executives, resume book, Trek book, and alumni reception
  • You will be responsible for flights to and from Seattle, accommodations (group rate currently being negotiated), meals, and entertainment).
  • Contact Ellie Bertani ([email protected]) or Maggie Draughon ([email protected]) for more details

Social Enterprise start-up events

November 22, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by deeksha  |  Events

Start-Up Perspectives: What Does it Mean to Launch and Fund a Social Venture?

November 29, 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Harvard iLab

Join moderator Professor Allen S. Grossman and panelists for a discussion on what it takes to launch and fund a social venture.

  • Scott Given (MBA 2010), Founder and CEO, Unlocking Potential, a nonprofit school turnaround organization which rapidly transforms chronically underperforming urban public schools into extraordinary, high-performing, sustainable schools.
  • Joanna Jacobson (MBA 1987), Founder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners, which is both a foundation and a pro bono consulting firm, that partners with grantees to provide the capital they need to realize their potential and the support to strategize, implement and troubleshoot.

The session will introduce the Social Venture Track of the HBS Business Plan Contest, the new Social Innovation Lab-Field Course being launched in the Winter Term, and other HBS resources supporting students who are pursuing social entrepreneurship. Open to all Harvard students (even if not participating in business plan contest) and the community.

 

 

HBS Business Plan Contest Social Venture Track: Teambuilding Mixer

November 29, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Harvard iLab

Harvard students from across the University, students from other universities, and entrepreneurs from the community at large are invited to attend a teambuilding mixer, designed to enable people with ideas to meet with prospective team members (and vice versa).

 

RSVP for Teambuilding Mixer

Start-up Roles at ZocDoc, NYC

November 21, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by rameez  |  News

We’re hiring at ZocDoc.  Are any of your friends in need of a job?  If so, I’ll give you an iPad2 for getting them a job.

 

If you forward any email this week, make sure it’s this one. The company I work for - ZocDoc the #1 Best Place to Work in New York City, will give you an iPad2 if you refer someone they hire! Just forward this email to your friends. Below are available positions – please read through to see if one might be right for you or someone you know!

 

To have them apply, have them send their resume, cover letter to [email protected] and make sure they include YOUR name (so we know who to send the iPad2 to!).

 

Salespeople!

Outside sales positions available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Washington DC – and more! Please have 4+ years of outside experience.  Inside sales positions available in New York City. Please have 2+ years of smiling and dialing.


Former bankers and consultants!

Bring it on, brainiacs! We are looking for great minds in sales operations and strategic sales. These are positions that work very closely with our executive team. We are also on the lookout for one very special person to become the ZocDoc Chief of Staff.

 

Software Engineers!

If a four monitor setup, an old school Street Fighter arcade, and a feeling of accomplishing something genuinely useful to humanity appeals to you, let’s talk.

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Below are even more jobs!
To see every available position, check out zocdoc.com/careers

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