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- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
(SaaS) opportunities is one that many companies are exploring as they follow the friendly economics that can come from moving away from selling one-off products toward licensing products or services on a subscription basis. Think of what View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Center, which investigates suspected vulnerabilities and problems with the company’s software and orchestrates immediate action (such as posting security patches) to deal with them. He is also involved in longer–term efforts to improve the security of all View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Despite all this, the online draft will certainly not be the same. Apart from the lost entertainment value—NFL draft fashion has become a much-watched spectacle in recent years—there are concerns about potential technical challenges. The draft will be conducted via the... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal logic for how these efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
“A number of technology breakthroughs were part and parcel of the development of this product, which could ... benefit users of all PCs." —John Quelch According to the case, "In July 2007, PC maker Everex announced it would start selling its PCs at Wal-Mart... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
for employees is different from what delivers the most value for the business? Roche: Microsoft conducted an internal survey where they asked employees how they felt about working remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, and Google Drive that help teams collaborate. However, there have been remote teams for decades in various industries and much of what makes these organizations successful is effective management... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
fundamental ways," Glaser explains. "At the same time, we are prepared to pivot dramatically in those select cases where you have to pivot in order to maintain your advantage." In a rare display of agreement between the two companies, View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
I felt there my first sense of being an entrepreneur.” Mendhro left Microsoft for HBS in 2006, but struggled with the adjustment while facing an acute health issue, which led her to take a break to return to Pakistan. “HBS was a dream. I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
game and then enter another game that will allow you to go after the same kinds of results you've been aiming for in the current game. And Option C is to quit this game and go to a different kind of game that produces a different type of results. If you invested... 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
- 01 Oct 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
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
infrastructure to host the marketplace. The numbers are simply staggering: in the space of one year, over 50,000 applications and over 1 billion downloads. Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators. Of course, View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Multiply that level of commitment by a factor of several hundred million and it’s easy to envision the change India is capable of in the coming years. “Those young people could be the country’s demographic dividend,” says Ravi Venkatesan (MBA ’92), chairman of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
success rate of the usual model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-086WP.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (B): District Court Ruling and Appeal Harvard Business School Supplement 608-081... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Administration Harvard Business Review Press Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Elon Musk’s Space X is Number 9 and Microsoft is Number 8. If we’re Number 4, we must be amazing!” Amazing, indeed. Now the darling of big banks and major investors - with almost $100 million in support from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
Microsoft took over a decade to bring to conclusion. A new direction? Whatever or whenever something emerges from Washington or the EU may be moot. According to a recently announced pivot in strategy—they call it a privacy-focused... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
on what the company wants to achieve in their business model. Machine learning is one of the new core technologies that allow for data science. Many companies are relying on it for their advances. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
pending patent case involving VMware and Microsoft and integration challenges associated with EMC's decision to spend $3 billion to acquire two other software firms based in California. The case raises issues surrounding deal protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne