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January 2023
Teaching Note

Call of Fiduciary Duty: Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard

By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-011. View Details

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February 2003 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Jim McCusker must guide a group decision-making process aimed at getting input and buy-in from key people in California, Mexico, and Austria to choose a shop floor IT system for Flextronics. McCusker is Flextronics' account manager for the Microsoft Xbox project.... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Geographic Location; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; California; Mexico; Austria

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December 2, 2002
Other Article

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Marco Iansiti and Sean Silverthorne

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03 Feb 2014
News

Gates Seen Taking Bigger Products Role at Microsoft

01 Jun 2001
News

Books: Judo Strategy

Netscape’s head of engineering how he could ever hope to compete successfully with Microsoft, given the dominant position of Windows, he gave a very judo-like answer. ‘You can look at Microsoft’s operating system as an asset, or you can think of Windows as a liability... View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Feb 2009
News

Does Microsoft really want to be the next RCA?

April 2008 (Revised August 2008)
Supplement

AT&T v. Microsoft (B): District Court Ruling and Appeal

By: Willy C. Shih

The (B) case follows the course of Microsoft's settlement with AT&T, and its appeal in the issue of foreign replicated software that eventually goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is intended for follow-up the discussion of the (A) case with what happened, examining a... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict and Resolution; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry

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October 2005 (Revised October 2005)
Supplement

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 2005 Update

By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China

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May 1993 (Revised May 1994)
Case

Microsoft Word for MS-DOS Systems: Changing the User Interface?

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15 Jun 2016
News

Microsoft is buying itself about 400 million new friends

04 Feb 2022
Video

A Conversation with Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and CEO

09 Sep 2019
News

How Top-Valued Microsoft Has Avoided the Big Tech Backlash

18 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson

09 Oct 2024
HBS Seminar

E. Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research's Plural Technology Collaboratory, Founder and Chair of the Plurality Institute

01 Dec 2000
News

Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start new businesses based on a revolutionary technology. Countless... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information