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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/search/113094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-031 Microsoft Server & Tools In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing, and highly profitable on the strength of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years later, the company sold to View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
speculates about whether Microsoft or Adobe would be better positioned to establish the dominant ebook standard. The possibility that the world’s biggest bookstore might eventually win that race hadn’t dawned on me. Social networks. We’d... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
spearheaded Nextdoor’s efforts to envision, design, and scale the company from its first members to over 250,000 neighborhoods in 10 countries. Prior to Nextdoor, Sarah started her career as a product manager at Microsoft before leading... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
helps explain why the owner of a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45560 August 2013 Journal of Applied Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
project will be to ask a similar question of the private sector: Does private-sector economic activity create or crowd out additional private-sector opportunities? Put differently, did Bill Gates's decision to relocate Microsoft to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
an association with American values can help or hurt. Companies such as Disney, Levi's, Harley-Davidson, and Marlboro may benefit from links with the American Dream, but others such as Microsoft or Motorola, which do not claim an overt... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
wide and thin versus focused and deep. Also, few enterprises want to be on the bleeding edge. Even in high tech, Microsoft was a second mover. —Kerry Bensman (ISMP 90, 1990) I agree with establishing the cloud of developers first.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
between Microsoft and Intel. Tech companies contend with high, upfront fixed costs and low marginal costs. They deal with the effect of standards in locking in customers and raising switching costs. With the unique aspects of the... View Details
- Web
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
following companies: Applied Intuition , C3 AI , Databricks , Google , Imbue AI , LinkedIn , Lucid , Meta , Microsoft , NVIDIA , Nuro , Perplexity , Scale AI , Skydio , Snowflake , and Uber . Exploring Silicon Valley: First Impressions... View Details
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
year filled with fast-moving developments in generative AI, the incorporation of the tools into search and shopping functions sheds light on just how powerful AI-enhanced search engines like Microsoft Bing could become. For instance,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
battle (to get $700,000 minus legal fees) will exceed the defendant's assessment of his exposure (to pay $500,000 plus fees). Without significant risk aversion, the divergent assessments would block any out-of-court settlement. This cognitive role bias helps explain... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Kathleen Hogan, the CHRO, said to me, she says, “We encourage our employees to really think hard about their own purpose.” They have a whole purpose activation exercise they make them go through. And her take was, you don't really work for View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
& Sustainability at Microsoft "There are many potential career opportunities when it comes to addressing climate change, but when I was defining my post-MBA career path, I was trying to answer a specific question: How can I drive the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
its market penetration—like that of rivals Microsoft (with the Xbox) and Nintendo (with the GameCube)—has been limited by a narrow customer base of mostly males in their late teens and twenties. Sony's goal is to make the PlayStation a... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
free, bundled version of Hyper-V, an advanced virtualization platform product. Looming over the impending competition between these two companies was the story of the "browser wars," in which Microsoft overwhelmed browser maker... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
second role, Takatsuka is in a project management position overseeing the work of two interns. The company provides an education program for the top 5% of engineers graduating from college in Nigeria to connect them with top worldwide companies like Google and View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Energy & Sustainability at Microsoft "There are many potential career opportunities when it comes to addressing climate change, but when I was defining my post-MBA career path, I was trying to answer a specific question: How can I... View Details