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Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
11/10/2013
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Bill Gates: What I Learned in the Fight Against Polio
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
As His Foundation Has Grown, Gates Has Slowed His Donations
New York Times 05/26/2014
Sue Desmond-Hellmann: Helping People Find Their Sweet Spot
New York Times 04/25/2015
Bill Gates and Microsoft
01/16/2009
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CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Next CEO's Biggest Job: Fixing Microsoft's Culture
Wall Street Journal 08/26/2013
Young Tech Sees Itself in Microsoftâs Ballmer
New York Times 08/25/2013
Microsoft Board Shows Little Taste for Bold Choice in CEO
Wall Street Journal 09/02/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
Microsoft management before 2014
01/16/2009
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Microsoft Concedes Windows 8 Misses Expectations
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Steve Ballmer Solidifies Grip on Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2013
Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way
New York Times 07/11/2013
The Challenge of Creating a Unified Organizational Strategy
New York Times 07/11/2013
Microsoft Shakes Up Its Consumer Products Unit
New York Times 05/25/2010
CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Microsoft performance before 2014
01/16/2009
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Microsoft's Failure to Launch Is No Joke
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2013
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2013
Hedge Fund Takes $2 Billion Stake in Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2013
Why Tim Cook Is Like Steve Ballmer
New York Times 04/23/2013
Microsoft Concedes Windows 8 Misses Expectations
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Steve Ballmer Solidifies Grip on Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2013
The events leading to Microsoft CEO Ballmer's decision to step down
11/16/2013
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Ballmer on Ballmer: His Exit From Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 11/16/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
Steve Ballmer Steps Down From Microsoft Board
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2014
Disruptions in technology and how it affects Dell, HP, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft
02/08/2010
How new technologies such as cloud computing, new database technologies, the iPhone and Android smart phones, iPad and tablet PC's, are creating a low growith environment for older established tech companies. Google revenues are catching up with Microsoft as ad revenues continue to increase. Decline in PC sales is reducing growth prospects for Dell, H-P, and Microsoft. Oracle is facing the impact of new database technologies, as it continues to hang on to an older technology. Startups are seeing rapid growth.
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Wall Street Journal 04/19/2013
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2011
HP To Apple: You Win. - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/19/2011
Lenovo Takes PC Sales Crown From H-P as Market's Slump Worsens
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
Microsoft Earnings: Another Big Miss
Wall Street Journal 07/19/2013
Microsoft and disruptions in technology
04/19/2013
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Wall Street Journal 04/19/2013
CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Microsoft Hits Ballmer Out of the Park
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
Microsoft Gets Lift From Cloud Gains
WSJ 07/19/2016
Bill Gates and India
11/10/2013
Grouped Articles
Bill Gates: What I Learned in the Fight Against Polio
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
Bill Gates and Renewal in American Schools
03/11/2009
Efforts to improve education in U.S. schools by Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation.
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U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
New York Times 01/18/2014
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
Arne Duncan: Better education starts with honesty about achievement gaps - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/24/2014
Obama Outlines Plan for Education Overhaul
New York Times 03/11/2009
Microsoft and "Stack" or "Forced" Ranking of employees
11/17/2013
Microsoft phases out this system of forced ranking of emplyees and puts in place more frequent feedback for employees from managers. The idea is to encourage teamwork. Ballmer makes this change in 2013 as he prepares to leave Microsoft. CEO Welch introduced the stack ranking system in General Electric and it was a way to rid GE of "underperformers" or those who did not conform to the new CEO's requirements. A professor at UCLA's School of Management sees the evaluation system at companies failing in many respects if it sees the manager's job to evaluate and not to get performance up to a high level by training, motivation and team work. Ballmer sat down for four hours in December 2013 with Alan Mulally to understand how Ford made its comeback and Mulally told him it was teamwork and simplifying the way Ford did things. Welch was addressing a problem not faced by many companies having to fight competition and come up with exciting products and technologies. He was trying to change an old established industrial company quickly- the same approach which did not put highest priority on teamwork would be disastrous for companies needing to fight entrenched competition.
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Microsoft Abandons 'Stack Ranking' of Employees
Wall Street Journal 11/17/2013
Invasion of the Annual Reviews
New York Times 11/23/2013
Lynn Good of Duke Energy, on Effective Leaders
New York Times 11/23/2013
Dabbling in Microsoft Is Enough for Gates
New York Times 01/22/2014
The Trouble With Grading Employees
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2015
360 Reviews Often Lead to Cruel, Not Constructive, Criticism
New York Times 02/26/2016
Steve Ballmer's three decades in top management at Microsoft and the transition to new leadership
08/23/2013
Ballmer's focus on protecting the Windows franchise from new competition has limited the opportunities for Microsoft as technologies change. With his departure from Microsoft the company is expected to make a transition to different strategies.
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CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Microsoft Hits Ballmer Out of the Park
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Ballmer on His Departure, Success, Failure and the Future
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2013
Constant Acquisition at Microsoft, and One Deal That Didn't Close
New York Times 08/23/2013
Next CEO's Biggest Job: Fixing Microsoft's Culture
Wall Street Journal 08/26/2013
Microsoft under CEO Steve Ballmer
04/23/2013
Grouped Articles
Why Tim Cook Is Like Steve Ballmer
New York Times 04/23/2013
Steve Ballmer Solidifies Grip on Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2013
Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way
New York Times 07/11/2013
The Challenge of Creating a Unified Organizational Strategy
New York Times 07/11/2013
CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2013
Declining worldwide PC sales in 2012-2015
03/05/2012
The introduction of the iPad and the sales of tablets by other manufacturers has resulted in declining worldwide PC sales in 2013. There is intense price competition in the PC market with smaller margins. This affects H-P, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and other PC makers. The introduction of Microsoft 8 has failed to reverse this trend.
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Microsoft Can't Keep Up in a Mobile World
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2013
Microsoft's Failure to Launch Is No Joke
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2013
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2013
Microsoft Concedes Windows 8 Misses Expectations
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Lenovo Turns to Phones As PC Industry Declines
Wall Street Journal 06/19/2013
Lenovo Takes PC Sales Crown From H-P as Market's Slump Worsens
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
Microsoft strategies
01/15/2009
Grouped Articles
Microsoft's Failure to Launch Is No Joke
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2013
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2013
Microsoft Concedes Windows 8 Misses Expectations
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Steve Ballmer Solidifies Grip on Microsoft
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2013
Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way
New York Times 07/11/2013
The Challenge of Creating a Unified Organizational Strategy
New York Times 07/11/2013
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