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Factiva: Advanced Searching

microsoft will return items with at least five mentions of Microsoft Note: n is any number between 1 and 50. Atleast works only in Search: Free-Text/Indexing, and not in Track. same vodafone same... View Details

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

25 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

day to day basis, using different tools and different sets of vocabulary on the job. For example, one group masters pipettes to perform immunoassays and FACS analyses, while the other masters Microsoft tools to prepare DCFs for investor... 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

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

immigration say many companies hire additional native employees along with the hiring of immigrants. For example, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has said in congressional testimony related to H-1B that the company hires four additional... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best strategies for companies living in these ecosystems? This... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

industry, in collaboration with Microsoft and others, and into the Middle East and Africa, and the company reports more than $1 million in annual revenue. It all feels a long way from the team’s embarrassing faux stock market crash. “I’ll... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

services for free, but engages in disclosure by profiling consumers and charging advertisers to target them. In contrast, Microsoft charges a subscription price for Office 365 but does not disclose consumer information for advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

28 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

B2B Branding: Does it Work?

Dreamliner (as a differentiating ingredient for early adopter airlines). GE and Microsoft are hybrid brands with some direct-to-consumer sales that have helped to build the reputations of what are primarily B2B firms. But these... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

Profile

Shaila Ittycheria

sharpest people I met at Microsoft were HBS alumni," Shaila says. Something else impressed her as well: "I was the only U.S.-born person on the team." They encouraged Shaila to do two things, she says: "To get an MBA... View Details

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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology

touchless equipment pick-up and drop-off service. Implemented a Microsoft Bookings calendar for appointment scheduling. This eliminates time-consuming back-and-forth exchanges between TSS agents and customers to look for a mutually... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Forward Thinking

Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In. Many data center owners have already cemented deals with utilities to get more of their electricity from sources like solar or wind. In May,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

he says, is the archetype for all emerging markets. "If you can't succeed here, you're not going to do well anywhere," says Venkatesan, who most recently served as chairman of Microsoft India from 2004 to 2011. "Emerging markets are... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA

Engineering Sciences 2020 Product Manager, Render Ankith Harathi , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2020 Co-founder, Macro Andy Harris , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2020 Co-founder, Parallel Fluidics Juan Carlos Lopez , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2021 Senior Program... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Five Degrees of Doriot

also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

behavioral ethics is better suited than traditional approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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