The class Hare got stuck in, which changed everything
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Intel's chief executive and Jonathan Hare of Only the Paranoid Survive. He taught his first Stanford GSB course on technology strategy in spring 1991, co-taught with Garth Saloner, who was then new to the school.
Hare did not get into any of the classes he requested — including Irv Grousbeck's entrepreneurship course — and ended up in Grove's by default. It produced the project that led to David Marquardt, which led to Microsoft, which led to everything after.
S-101 sharpens the crucible: Grove's digital-health urgency was forged surviving prostate cancer — treated by Dr. David Agus following a personal referral from Sumner Redstone — and then battling Parkinson's; appalled by the friction, delays and silos, he dedicated his formidable intellect to attacking them, with Barrett's Dossia consortium rising alongside and Otellini completing the leadership era.
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There were no electives in the autumn, which settles the semester. Wyc Grousbeck was in the same class because he did not need to take entrepreneurship from his own father.
Correction: this record previously named Robert Burgelman as the co-teacher. Burgelman taught the core strategy course in autumn 1990 and was away that spring; Grove's long-running joint course with him began later. Saloner co-taught the spring 1991 course.
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Co-taught the Grove class, then joined Blyth's board
Open →his later long-running co-teacherCo-taught the course, and Hare loved him
Open →taught at1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →both on the Intel boardVisiting from Harvard, and became a mentor
Open →classmate of Hare in his courseGave Hare his nickname, and the introduction that started the arc
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