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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for the Staples headquarters and the... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
platform). Over time, Microsoft has pursued both integration and foreclosure strategies with its Microsoft Windows operating system, Wu says. Companies that are new to a market don’t initially have the same... 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
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Summing Up The jury is in. Nearly all respondents to this month's column would advise U.S. firms such as Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft to continue to operate in China despite the government's possible use of their content or... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
next,” Sadun explains. ‘Employees cannot live in the dark’ Even if a temporary lull in communication is likely during a CEO transition, long-term silence doesn’t have to be inevitable, the researchers say, citing Satya Nadella’s ascent at View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- Profile
Paul Lenehan
internship, as a Microsoft product manager in its online services division, will be a prelude to what he'd like to do upon graduation. "Something in tech," Paul says, "with a product management role in a medium-stage or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
as US firms such as Microsoft and Intel. Should H-1B quotas be expanded? The primary argument against expanding the H-1B quotas is that they may eventually be used to replace domestic workers. Rather than retrain older Americans, a firm... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Microsoft became dominant in software for PC operating systems; and the belief by entrepreneurs and investors alike that online grocery orders to the long-gone Webvan, the largest single start-up during the Internet bubble, would become a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Profile
Alex Slusky
As a young undergraduate, Alex Slusky did things a promising professional was not supposed to do. When he was an economics student at Harvard, an ad in The Crimson caught his eye: Microsoft was looking for summer interns – from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
ominously at three in the morning. In commercial marketing, Apple’s “Hi, I’m a Mac; Hi, I’m a PC” spots are about as tough as comparison advertising gets. Yet the digs at Microsoft are offset by sympathy for the nerdy but likable PC... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
efforts for other verticals or market the venture's product broadly? How should it price its product for different uses in different markets? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-054 Commercial Sales... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
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
- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). Over two days, 11 faculty members from across the School taught five new cases involving companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker, raising... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details