Word: siliconing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Anna Fudacz, whose Harvard interview four years ago was "spoiled" by a curmudgeonly alum, earned departmental honors in economics at Stanford, reveled in Silicon Valley and plans to work at Intel next year. Mira Lew, who had hired a professional college counselor to help her win the admissions game, became a history major at Columbia--and has since landed a job at Marvel Comics. Parham Yashar also moved on quickly from his Harvard rejection. He will be graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA a week from Saturday, then off to Northwestern Medical School...
While their classmates head to New York City's investment banking firms or the Silicon Valley's dot-com craziness, these recent alumni will be turning to the undergraduate Houses, Byerly Hall or the University library system for their first stop in the real world...
Intel faced a SIP, and Grove had to make a decision. His choice eventually earned Intel a fortune and gave him a reputation as the managerial master of Silicon Valley...
Grove capitalized on his mentor's "Moore's Law," which says that as silicon chips became smaller and smaller, companies will be able to produce more and more, and computers will run faster and faster...
...very radical and very extreme." And Jackson, may have already lobbed a fat pitch in his decision to give Microsoft only four months to design a breakup plan. "Microsoft will likely take that point straight to appeals, and there's a good chance they'd win," says TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor. "That could set the tone for the rest of this...