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- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
talent, you find great investments. Through that talent is where investment comes in and you can begin to see examples. Microsoft just opened up a development center in Nigeria and Kenya, five years ago that may not have happened. And... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals. The late multibillionaire Paul... 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
- 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 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Administration Harvard Business Review Press Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
things like shapes, lines, and colors. So if you ask Google what a dog is, Google Images will offer you billions of results. Google’s not the only one. From Microsoft and Amazon to countless buzzy Valley startups, when someone says they... 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 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
someone has brought a cake. Kim shows up with two huge salads, winning cheers from the vegetarians in the group. Dan Brillon, GoLite’s COO, wears shorts and a T-shirt. Previously, he was the director of mergers and acquisitions at View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
2000, Tait approached Furlong again and showed him the organization’s vision statement that outlined the future of the company — after all, these folks were trained at Microsoft — and the development of a core brand of products. Furlong... 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
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Multiply that level of commitment by a factor of several hundred million and it’s easy to envision the change India is capable of in the coming years. “Those young people could be the country’s demographic dividend,” says Ravi Venkatesan (MBA ’92), chairman of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna