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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
as a for-profit "bridge" developer of educational facilities throughout the United States. He thought he had found the perfect investor in Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist, who for years had been...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner Prizes are increasingly dangled...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Elon Musk’s Space X is Number 9 and Microsoft is Number 8. If we’re Number 4, we must be amazing!” Amazing, indeed. Now the darling of big banks and major investors - with almost $100 million in support from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs,...
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- 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...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
often even high school graduates. To train them to work in their stores in things like stock shelving, putting goods on the shelves Or a Microsoft doing that with cognitive diversity individuals, for example, autistics Or more commonly,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
sounds like your main competitor is the last-minute executive dash with the Microsoft Office suite.Petitti: Honestly, yeah.Kerr: You guys just raised or actually just announced a $35 million series E. So your fifth venture investment and...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Windows Vista Harvard Business School Case 909-038 Microsoft designs, modifies, publicizes, and distributes Windows Vista—against a backdrop of consumers already largely satisfied with their existing Windows XP systems. View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
concept was that all personal computers were alike because they depended upon Intel processors and Microsoft software. The only possible differentiation in running a personal computer company, he posited, was to provide better service and...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
engineer within IBM. But if we wanted to know what was happening at Microsoft or Accenture or any other competitor, that just wasn’t on the table. There was no sense of differentiation in the projects we were doing internally. So,...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
developer access prices. We also find that the proprietary platform may benefit from higher investment in the open platform when developers multi-home. This result helps explain why a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
where does the ultimate onus lay here? These technologies are so complicated and so advanced and changing so fast and learning so fast. Is it incumbent on the Microsofts and on the Googles to ensure their tools aren’t vulnerable to this?...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run auctions for Dell Computer and View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
loss struggling to keep up. Shari Eberts (MBA 1995) is helping by urging industry players to provide free automatic captions on their platforms. In April she launched a petition to that end with some 50,000 signatures to date; in response, both Google and View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Equifax Examining the cause of and response to the 2017 data breach at Equifax that exposed the information of over 145 million consumers. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-036 North Forty:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
influences scientists' hazards of transitioning to for-profit science. With Friends Like These: The Art of Managing Complementors Authors:David B Yoffie and Mary Kwak Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 9 (September 2006) Abstract Intel and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2102669 Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Unlimited Potential (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 509-009 This short (B) case provides an update of how Microsoft organized its unlimited potential initiative. Purchase this supplement:...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
healthy part of the technology industry. And then, by the way, the other thing, of course: Microsoft’s in it now with Microsoft Viva, Google’s in it with Google Workspace, WebEx from Cisco, Facebook wants to get in it with Workplace....
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