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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft... 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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
often not a strategic decision in terms of what is best for the company. What about that tension, when what works best for employees is different from what delivers the most value for the business? Roche: Microsoft conducted an internal... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
automotive future was going to revolve around connected services, Mistele left Microsoft in order to establish INRIX. “When we started, there was no connected car, no iPhone, no iPad,” he says, “but we knew things were going to change.... 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Felix Oberholzer-Gee came close when he cut ahead in line, all in the name of research. Here’s what companies can learn about long lines and social behavior. Lessons from the Browser Wars The first-mover advantage is well chronicled, but it didn’t help Netscape when... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and Its Battle with Microsoft has been a focal point in the landmark antitrust suit brought by the Department of Justice against Microsoft. At issue in the case is whether View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business neophyte when he cofounded View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
he says, is the archetype for all emerging markets. "If you can't succeed here, you're not going to do well anywhere," says Venkatesan, who most recently served as chairman of Microsoft India from 2004 to 2011. "Emerging markets are... View Details
- 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 serving in World War II, Doriot... 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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
Mattox, AB ’82; MBA ’89, Stanford University. Vice President and Chief of Staff, Operations, Finance, and Resources Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co. New York, NY. Mark J. Zbikowski, AB ’78; SM ’79, Yale University. Senior Software Designer, View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
ominously at three in the morning. In commercial marketing, Apple’s “Hi, I’m a Mac; Hi, I’m a PC” spots are about as tough as comparison advertising gets. Yet the digs at Microsoft are offset by sympathy for the nerdy but likable PC... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
progress. And ultimately, build companies like Apple and Microsoft and Sun and Seagate and literally, a whole valley was built on that. White: You recently hosted the Blockchain Summit, can you explain what blockchain is and why you think... View Details