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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
wide and thin versus focused and deep. Also, few enterprises want to be on the bleeding edge. Even in high tech, Microsoft was a second mover. —Kerry Bensman (ISMP 90, 1990) I agree with establishing the cloud of developers first....
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- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar screens. Westinghouse was a...
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Desmond Wong
- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Prince. But when larger providers like Google or Microsoft began to use cloud services that could employ data from their millions of customers to help snuff out junk email, it made it hard to stay in the spam business. “The cost of...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
legislature in 2002. Bloomberg hired Joel I. Klein, the former Justice Department official who prosecuted the Microsoft antitrust case, as chancellor of his new Department of Education. The mayor has said one of his top priorities is...
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- 11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
case and why? “One case that stands out to me was the Droga5 case in Professor Anita Elberse’s class. Much like the way that Droga5 and Microsoft teamed up to launch Jay-Z’s Decoded memoir by unveiling pages of the book all over New York...
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- 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...
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- 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....
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- 01 Mar 2023
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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
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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...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2004
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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...
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- 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...
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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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- 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...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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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