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- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
grown to house a third of Microsoft's basic-science R&D researchers. More broadly, HBS assistant professor Fritz Foley and I are working on a research project that has found that U.S.-based ethnic scientists within multinationals like View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
strategy, and financial projections. More importantly, all are designed to be toolkits that managers can keep in their virtual briefcase and use for real-world decision-making. All are easy to download into Microsoft Excel for use on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Burroughs. "Now who are they? IBM is still there, but Cisco and Microsoft did not exist in the '70s. So if we just listen to the voices of the [major players], the policy implemented is out of date." Loyalty, concern for the... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar screens. Westinghouse was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate By: Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract—Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
balance. The last thing you want to do is foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones and mobile phones. The strategy shift would include transitioning Nokia's phone operating system to Microsoft Windows and closing phone R&D centers and factories in 13... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
competitive solutions from Microsoft and the open-source community threaten to hinder the company's long-term growth potential. Outlines virtualization technology and the dynamics that affect its market; covers the history of VMware;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
product and design leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon. She has authored several studies on language, technology, and document bias. Prior to founding Textio, Kieran built a multifunctional team in analytics, program management, and... 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
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
legislature in 2002. Bloomberg hired Joel I. Klein, the former Justice Department official who prosecuted the Microsoft antitrust case, as chancellor of his new Department of Education. The mayor has said one of his top priorities is... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
concept was that all personal computers were alike because they depended upon Intel processors and Microsoft software. The only possible differentiation in running a personal computer company, he posited, was to provide better service and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston