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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
room to contribute to the mission of Microsoft is excited to, willing to contribute what they can uniquely contribute. If you look at the research on inclusion, what's really extraordinary is that when we get this right as... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
the Wall Street Journal. Steve Jobs said that VisiCalc “propelled the Apple II to the success it achieved more than any other single event.” It also was the force behind the later success of Microsoft in business computing. But VisiCalc’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
"Put yourself in 1980," HBS professor Richard L. Nolan challenged alumni during his spring reunion presentation "The Exploding Internet: Impact on Business and Society." "If you're IBM, who's your major competitor?" Answering his own question, he displayed a photo of a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for the Staples headquarters and the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, left the corporate world to launch Social Venture Partners (SVP) India, which brings together concerned citizens to solve economic and social problems through venture... View Details
- 04 Apr 2014
- News
Increasing Access to Education
experience helped me hone my critical thinking and communication skills and gave me a very valuable personal and professional network.” Before joining Jawbone, Mount held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and AOL United Kingdom,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
plant seeds that ultimately blossomed into his now rapidly growing young company. At a business event in Washington, D.C., a Microsoft marketing manager buttonholed Hall about the electronic ID card. View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fields, which could be deployed to build a host of complementary AI tools—like a picking arm that could be bolted to Burro. But weighing the potential value of its data against the resources required to build value from it, Andersen questions how or whether to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
recalls, and then offered her the job. In retrospect, Bond appreciates the warning, and she knows her longtime boss was just looking out for her. But as she speaks about the experience seven years later, in her bright office on the sprawling View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
was, what do we know something about?” The former executive at Amazon and Microsoft knew plenty about tech and business. Risher’s abundant experience and knowledge helped him build out the foundational Worldreader app. He also had... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
establishment. If government isn’t addressing these issues, can companies take a leadership role? MT: A lot of companies are trying to figure out what they can do in the absence of regulation. Companies like Microsoft have gone on record... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
likely in for a long wait. “But what if you could just push a button and have instant access to all the Curious George titles at little or no cost?” posits David Risher (MBA ’91). A former “Professor of the Year” at the University of Washington’s Foster School of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
global opportunities and avenues is going to favor the Microsofts of the world, which have the size, strength, and presence to navigate these environments. How do the small and medium-sized businesses compete to get access to this talent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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