Microsoft - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

commitment to writing software, specifically Office for the Mac. Microsoft Office was and still is the standard, and without it, the hole in the Apple boat Amelio described in his comic-opera way would have only grown larger. Jobs also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

serve as a role model, showing employees they live by the same rules and allow themselves to be governed by results as much as anyone else. 5 steps for scaling While developing that culture may seem daunting for companies that aren’t the size of Booking—let alone View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

when they're of higher value than the firm's own modules. In that case, increased openness obviously results in greater value creation and value capture. Q: It seems that open source software, particularly when it's part of the "mixed" model, is becoming more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

services in India, the Philippines, and Indonesia, where several banks are beginning to see the value of such services and, consequently, are entering trial partnerships with mobile operators. "It's not going to be the Nokias, Motorolas, or View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

game-changing technology, Microsoft Kinect, which transformed the field of motion-capture. Released as a gaming accessory for Microsoft’s Xbox in 2010, Kinect was leagues ahead of similar technologies such as Nintendo’s Wii and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

corporations such as Microsoft or Coca-Cola, particularly in Europe. Many NGOs, by the very nature of the work they do and the dedication of their staff and volunteers, attract the respect and admiration of many individuals. Nonprofits... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“ Himabindu Lakkaraju : Winner of the 2017 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award for ”Learning Cost-Effective and Interpretable Treatment Regimes” with Cynthia Rudin. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a 2017 View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Rclone - Research Computing Services

Unix file management commands, and a long list of cloud providers are supported . You can use rclone to transfer and synchronize files between HBSGrid storage and your HBS Microsoft OneDrive storage , or any other supported cloud storage... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature case-based learning model. Strategic Financial Analysis What level of experience with Microsoft Excel should participants have before starting the... View Details

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

political dissidents and Falun Gong activists whom they attempt to track as equivalent. Q: It was interesting that no other companies backed Google in this dispute. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called it "Google's problem." A:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

for your product or service, as well as to remove the inhibitors to purchasing. The most successful companies follow this two-pronged strategy of providing a reason for the customer to buy, while eliminating annoying problems in the order cycle. Whether it is View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

mass-produced personal computer. Indeed, it suffered heavy losses in its mainframe business. But IBM clones conquered world markets. And every clone had to use an Intel chip and a Microsoft operating system. The resulting advantages of... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

is easiest to use but limited to the features offered by your application or programming language. Most of the applications commonly used for data analysis on the HBSGrid provide some degree of implicit parallelization. The system-wide installation of Rstudio / View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

treatment in Microsoft Word. (Case in point, see above: “Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness in Asymmetric, Environmental Social Dilemmas: Explaining Harvesting Behavior and the Role of Communication” vs. “The Impossibility of Auditor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will and desire to innovate in your system can... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

determine what the telling of these stories can teach us about how we tell our own. CASE STUDY Linking Purpose to Profits: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Professor Krishna Palepu No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info When... View Details

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