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- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708491 Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Harvard Business School Case 508-072 In April 2007, Bill Gates announced Microsoft Unlimited...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
as the ones cited in the article is because they are exceptions. There is no question that brilliant, strongly mission-driven founders can inspire people to follow them, despite personality flaws Once the excitement fades, a different type of leadership is...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the years," says HBS professor View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has...
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- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
$1.5 billion and then gave $100 million of their proceeds back to their employees.2 More typically, that's what fabulously successful entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie in the late 1800s or Bill Gates in the...
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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding credibility and momentum...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
human-capital development that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding...
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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
powerful instruments of philanthropy, like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are putting hundreds of millions of dollars towards the eradication of a disease. Huge as that is, it's not an effort that...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
capitalization. “The Valley of Death” The many faces of Andy Grove, from left: hobnobbing in black tie with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at a celebration of Time magazine’s 75th anniversary (1998); on the...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly...
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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur?...
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- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
and how to apply it. And so, all of them, no matter if they found the same, they really are doing something fundamentally different. Morrell: There have been a number of big tech names in recent years who have really raised the alarm on AI. I think View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
resemble the Brady Bunch. It is hard to understand how other people find the time. And yet these models also raise doubts. You may wonder whether it is ever possible for a Bill Gates to be a "regular...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Not-for-profits like Water Aid and the Bill Gates Foundation, others in the country. The idea of starting the India Sanitation Coalition emerged from that. Because what was needed was a platform where...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
kind of model didn’t even have a name until October 2007. Sitting around a table at a Rockefeller Foundation–sponsored retreat in Lake Como, Italy, with some of the early leaders in the field—including representatives from the Skoll Foundation, the View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
models in India, no Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg to show us that it can be done. In India, the impression was that, unless you were born into the right family, you just couldn’t make it. Third, the venture...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
can’t possibly build, the capacity to directly serve even a significant portion of them. So what to do? With a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bridgespan has launched a “Great...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
products—and more likely to indulge in treats. Why? “You did something good for the environment,” Karmarkar says, “so you can have a cookie.” It was easy to believe Bill Gates in 2012 when he predicted that...
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