Bill Gates - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Strategy; Design Thinking; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Design; Technology; Leadership; Innovation Strategy

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1928–1956 Robert W. Galvin Motorola, 1956–1986 Frank E. Gannett Gannett Company, 1906–1957 Edward G. Gardner Soft Sheen Products, 1964–1985 Arthur G. Gaston Booker T. Washington Insurance, 1932–1987 William H. Gates III Microsoft... View Details

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

The New Role for Government & NGOs Shared value fosters new relationships between companies, philanthropists, NGOs, and government in addressing social issues and achieving the most impact for the least cost. Case Study Bill & Melinda... View Details

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

advocates from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently discussed the approach at a seminar hosted by the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). COVID-19 heightened urgency... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Penny George and William W. "Bill" George (MBA 1966) in honor of Bill's 40th Reunion. The former CEO of Medtronic Inc., Bill was awarded the School's highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, in 1997, and he now serves as a professor... View Details

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

Pakistan, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was recognized for his work by being selected as an Acumen Pakistan Fellow and World Health Organization Primary Healthcare Leader.... View Details

06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

up your mind.” "The computer industry creates more has-beens more quickly than any other. Steve was determined not to be one of them." There are two reasons that only Steve Jobs could have saved Apple in 1997. First, Jobs persuaded Bill... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success during times of incredible... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Teams app to Office 365 in 2017. Microsoft executives briefly considered buying Slack, but founder Bill Gates reportedly opposed the move. "New companies like Slack emerge with a great product, better than... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

example of the two strangers negotiating the sale of the lakeside cottage. What if the current owner is putting it up for sale because he has lost his job, while the businessman just happens to be Bill Gates... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Partner Organizations ACCION International ACLU Acumen African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) American Ballet Theatre Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Bill & Melinda Gates... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Services Bayer Corporation Bayside Oncology Beacon Health Options Beckman Coulter, Inc. Becton, Dickinson & Co. Behavioral Intervention Association (BIA) Bethesda Hospital Foundation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Bill & Melinda... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

will be maintained." Phillip Clark weighed in with this view: "Wisdom and trust determine transparency. The comfort and motives you sense from those providing the information determines how much you will believe Transparency is doomed by paranoia and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance, Asian Development Bank, Clinton Health Access Initiative Peggy Mativo-Ochola “ONCE SOMEONE HAS THAT SPARK OF EXPERIENCE, THERE’S NO... View Details

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

costs Bill Gates $300 a second. What is your time worth?" And an ad campaign for The Wall Street Journal features celebrities including Tory Burch and Will.i.am reading the paper with the tagline,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Harvard Business School

and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Service Leadership Fellows Named

Valerie Bockstette, New Sector Alliance, Boston; Glen Brenner, Mayor’s Office, City of Boston; Juan Fernandez, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle; Jennifer Houston, Lincoln Center for the Performing... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Feb 2020
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Elevator Pitch: Rec Checks

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Concept: A social app (with Bill Gates as lead investor) that helps users find and share great experiences. Likewise uses AI and recommendations from... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Where Are They Now?

Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Management

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