Harvard Business School 9-392-019 Rev. July 8. 1993 Bill Gates and the Management of Microsoft Despite the fact that we’ve been successful financially‚ there’s an ongoing need to anticipate where this industry is going‚ and to be at the forefront of changing the products. And this is every bit as challenging as it’s ever been--and perhaps more so. Bill Gates‚ Microsoft Chairman and CEO‚ 1991 On June 30‚ 1991‚ Microsoft Corporation closed the books on another year of dazzling growth. Revenues for
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smile of satisfaction. Several examples have demonstated this‚ most notably Bill Gates and Thomas Edison. Take the case of Bill Gates as an example. When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard‚ he did not care too much about the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973 and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opportunity to study at the world’s No.1 University. However‚ with size
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 by its namesake‚ Bill Gates‚ and his wife Melinda. The couple created the foundation “to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.”1 It is headquartered in Seattle‚ Washing and is co-chaired by Bill‚ Melinda and William Gates Sr. Since its founding the foundation has accrued an incredible $31.9 billion and has a net worth of almost $50 billion. With such spending power‚ the foundation has been able to make great
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HOME READING ASSINGMENT The Road Ahead by Bill Gates I Answer the questions: EXERCISE 3 3a How was the work of these three people important to modern computer systems? Charles Babbage‚ Claude Shannon‚ John Von Neumann - Charles Babbage is the first man who had an idea to make a machine which can work with numbers‚ and which can do different jobs by following different orders. That was a hundred and fifty years ago. - After the hundred years‚ during which people worked on Babbage’s
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On February 26th‚ Bill Gates gave a speech to governors‚ policy makers‚ and business leaders from across the nation to discuss the problems with education. During that speech‚ Bill Gates gave a keynote address where he called American public schools "obsolete." This statement made by one of the most powerful and influential men in the world could destroy the education systems of the United States let alone destroy the education systems of the world. Gates has spent almost a billion dollars influencing
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Bill Gates was born on Oct. 28‚ 1955. He grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father‚ William H. Gates II‚ is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother‚ Mary Gates‚ was a schoolteacher‚ University of Washington regent‚ and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There‚ he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13. In 1973‚ Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman‚ where he lived
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family.[3][4] Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition.[5][6] He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune‚ Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors‚ donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation‚ founded
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book The Road Ahead‚ Bill Gates relates to a non-technical audience the history‚ growth‚ and future of technology. He discusses how the trends‚ technologies‚ and issues of the Information Age are affecting society. Gates makes predictions and gives advice on how to adapt and succeed in the future of incredible change in computing and communicating. His book is written with two major concerns: the development and future of technology‚ and its influence on society. Bill Gates begins by explaining
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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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Bill Gates Bill Gates was an individual who changed technology and he made it easy for people to live their lives and work. Bill Gates was born in 1955 on October 28 and he was a very argumentative child. When Bill was just 13 he started working on code. He was banned from his school’s computers for the rest of the year because he hacked into companies and changed their work. Bill dropped out of harvard to fulfill his dream to make his own company. Bill is a very competitive person who always
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