Bill Gates - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2001
News

Turnaround Situation

centerpiece of the restoration project, the old Sundowner motel, was once home to “a struggling computer geek named Bill Gates who had a special deal with the Sundowner’s owner for an extended stay” while he... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program

Meredith Hamilton, Citizen Schools; Tim Nicolette, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; and Adrian Mucalov, Endeavor; (front row) John Kim, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative; Mikaela Boyd, Bill & Melinda View Details

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

heard. But a significant number supported Bill Gates and the board and weren't even sure that, when the final result is known, it will be a net minus for the company. They generally took issue with one or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2014
News

Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact

1999. The Bridgespan Group serves more than 350 organizations and foundations, including Girls Incorporated, Feeding America, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Finding ways to scale an organization's... View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers

students and families.” Rowe, whose résumé includes leading roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MTV, the White House, and Teach for America, joined the organization in 2010 at the urging of... View Details

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His... View Details

10 Mar 2011
News

Philanthropy’s Dilemma

An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

its wealth; what will save us now is technology and innovation,” added Wolfensohn, chairman of Wolfensohn & Company and former president of the World Bank. Creative Capitalist: In his conversation with HBS professor emeritus James Cash, Microsoft’s View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

Rivkin and faculty colleagues Allen Grossman, Kevin Sharer, and Michael Porter partnered with the Boston Consulting Group and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research how business could best help... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

12 Aug 2010
News

You Can’t Take It with You

Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

20 Nov 2014
News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

public education system. Together with the Boston Consulting Group and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they convened more than 100 business and education leaders for a two-day conference, issuing a... View Details

Profile

Josh Solera

lots of information in order to arrive at informed answers.” As a management consultant at The Parthenon Group, Josh had ample opportunity for addressing big problems. “We analyzed a large school district in the South as part of a project funded by the View Details

14 Jan 2021
News

Better Than Cash

Alliance, a public-private partnership funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for... View Details

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

problem-solving entrepreneurs and successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Michael Dell become well-respected role models for younger people. Marketing, a distinctly American expertise, has of course... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

flaws." Once the excitement fades, a different type of leadership is essential. Bill Eickhoff would compare Jobs, Bezos, etc. to Ford, Edison, etc. "No one ever raves about their so-called 'leadership' style. These men were... View Details