Background Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington‚ USA that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4‚ 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800‚ Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s‚ followed by the Microsoft Windows
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Corporate Governance Analysis Microsoft The CEO: Steven Anthony Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since January 2000. He graduated from Detroit Country Day School‚ Michigan. He later joined Harvard University‚ where he studied Math and Economics. During that time‚ he lived down the hall from Bill Gates‚ Microsoft’s founder and Chairman of the Board. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11‚ 1980 as the first business manager and the 30th employee. His first salary was $50‚000 including 8% of
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Microsoft and Intel V. Antitrust Law By Name William Cheng Economics 7/26/2014 The article I found to be interesting focuses on the U.S. court cases United States v. Microsoft and In re Intel Corp. Both of which‚ are dealing with violations of antitrust law. The topics include the preservation of innovation‚ the application of antitrust standards to high-technology platforms‚ and market monopolization. In the early 90’s Microsoft and Intel were investigated and later charged with a substantial
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Microsoft Organizational Growth & Control Study Microsoft Organizational Growth & Control Study Microsoft has been a highly influential and instrumental organization of change during our lifetime. At times we praise these innovations‚ and at times we’ve cursed it. The Government has tried to control it. Organizations have tried to imitate it. By no means has this company had an easy time. Organizational growth goes through stages‚ each culminating in a crisis stage which must be overcome
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Microsoft’s best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in their respective markets; with market share estimates as high as 90% or more for Microsoft Windows as of 2006 and for Microsoft Office
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take the model used by Microsoft in the 1980’s as a vantage point to further delve into the many facets of employee motivation. What was the philosophy behind Microsoft’s motivation strategy and is it a model that can be considered effective? Furthermore the author will try to find different philosophies on employee motivation in the hope of gaining a better understanding of the subject in general. 2. Microsoft’s 1980’s Employee Motivation Philosophies In the 1980’s Microsoft utilised its own brand
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DATABASE: A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example‚ the availability of rooms in hotels)‚ in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example‚ finding a hotel with vacancies). A general-purpose database management system (DBMS) is a software system designed to allow the definition‚ creation‚ querying‚ update‚ and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include MySQL‚ PostgreSQL‚ SQLite
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Strategic Alliance between Nokia and Microsoft Business Administration knowledge assists the implementation of the strategic alliance between Nokia and Microsoft from several aspects. To begin with‚ decisions about leadership are one of the most disturbing problems in the strategic alliance; interim leaders are appropriate solutions to the issue (Werther‚ 1998). Interim leaders are those haired from a third party‚ not belonging to the alliance partners. Compared to selecting a leader from one
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Bonds Microsoft’s long-term debt is composed of eight long-term bonds. It also has two short-term bonds that mature this year and early next year. These bonds were neglected in this report. In this report the required return was calculated by using the coupon rates‚ market values‚ time until maturity‚ and tax rate. These values were all found on Microsoft’s 2012 financial statement. The weighted average cost of debt was then found through the multiplication of each bond’s required return and their
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How to Use a Data Spreadsheet: Excel One does not necessarily have special statistical software to perform statistical analyses. Microsoft Office Excel can be used to run statistical procedures. Although in some respects Excel is not as preferable for data analyses as IBM SPSS‚ it is very userfriendly with simpler statistical procedures. This appendix describes how to use Excel to execute basic statistical calculations. Data from the 2004 version of the General Social Survey (GSS) is used for
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