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26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

reality going forward? Is AR the next big thing? Willy Shih: Microsoft Windows users in the late 80s and early 90s might remember that Microsoft came up with a Solitaire game as a way of introducing people... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Discovering a new organization and state as an intern

when I reunite with my friend, Microsoft Excel. It will also be gratifying to apply some shiny new b-school knowledge to my project and further realize what I have gained from HBS in the past year. - Stephanie Tupi, MBA 2015 View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Apr 2001
News

Turnaround Situation

centerpiece of the restoration project, the old Sundowner motel, was once home to “a struggling computer geek named Bill Gates who had a special deal with the Sundowner’s owner for an extended stay” while he tried to raise funds for his fledgling company. “We like to... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

04 Apr 2014
News

Increasing Access to Education

experience helped me hone my critical thinking and communication skills and gave me a very valuable personal and professional network.” Before joining Jawbone, Mount held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and AOL United Kingdom,... View Details

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

caught the attention of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought her advice about online advertising, later offering her a position as Microsoft’s consulting chief economist, where she worked on the search advertising platform and a host... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft has been a focal point in the landmark antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft. At issue in the case is whether View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business neophyte when he cofounded View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

case:http://hbr.org/search/612076-PDF-ENG Microsoft IT India Willy Shih, Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, Will Jurist, Diego Medicina, and Helen WangHarvard Business School Case 612-078 Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty | Information Technology

community connected. Dropbox, by request Microsoft 365 Secure File Transfer Slack, by request Webex Calling Zoom Meeting & Event Planning Resources for coordinating meeting spaces and catering. Booking Space Catering Hybrid Classrooms A–Z... View Details

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Staff | Information Technology

Teams OneDrive Printing Personal Devices Travel Information Working Remotely Collaboration Tools to help keep the HBS community connected. Microsoft 365 Secure File Transfer Slack, by request Webex Calling Zoom Meeting & Event Planning... View Details

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Using Cloud Storage & Services at HBS | Information Technology

OneDrive or Dropbox, whether that data is your own personal data or Harvard business data. Data Security Your Harvard account now offers you access to both Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox. Both are excellent services and have been approved... View Details

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207092 Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? Harvard Business School Case 707-501 In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email systems like View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

copy ads from Google to a competing vendor. Consider a Google advertiser that wanted to begin to advertise with Yahoo or Microsoft adCenter too. Yahoo, Microsoft, or third-party software developers could help the advertiser use the API to... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

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Protecting Data at HBS | Information Technology

to HBS Researchers. Contact HUIT at ithelp@harvard.edu for more information. HBS OneDrive HBS SharePoint HBS SharePoint / Teams HBS Qualtrics Up to Level 4 Harvard Accellion Filetransfer : Outlook Microsoft Purview Message Encryption... View Details

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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting

leaders for inspiring discussions and interactive workshops. Past speakers include leaders from companies like OpenAI , Anthropic , Google DeepMind , Microsoft , and Amazon . For 33 years running, this conference has been one of HBS's... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

University Elections

Mattox, AB ’82; MBA ’89, Stanford University. Vice President and Chief of Staff, Operations, Finance, and Resources Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co. New York, NY. Mark J. Zbikowski, AB ’78; SM ’79, Yale University. Senior Software Designer, View Details

Rudina Seseri

Previously, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation. In this role, she led a number of successful acquisitions including iView Multimedia, Massive Interactive, Bungie Studios restructuring... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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Hacking AI with HBS IT | Information Technology

management, data, and applications. To bring those ideas to life, staff could use multiple HBS-supported tools, including ChatGPT, Harvard’s AI Sandbox, Microsoft Copilot for M365, and Amazon’s Party Rock. This year, HBS IT partnered with... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

Latin, Central, and South America, founded by Fernando Espuelas, and Bayside Motion Group, North America's leading manufacturer of precision gearheads, founded by Howard Lind (MBA '86) and Avi Telyas (MBA '86). The evening's keynote address was given by View Details

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