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• Attribution

  James Wallace

• Publication Details

  Book, 1St Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

• Description

  Traces the career of the chairman of Microsoft from 1992 to 1997, focusing on his all-out effort to catch up to and overtake the Netscape company in order to dominate the Internet.

• Tags

  Microsoft Corporation · History · Businessmen · Biography · Computer software industry · Wallace, James, 1947

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    338.761 Wal (AVAILABLE)

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  Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

• Publication Details

  Book, Free Press, 1995

• Description

  Focusing specifically on the unique “synch-and-stabilize” approach to product development, they show how this vital capability enables Microsoft not only to build an increasing variety of complex features and end-products for fast-paced markets with short life cycles, but also to shape evolving mass markets and foster organizational learning.

• Tags

  Microsoft Corporation · Computer software industry · Cusumano, Michael A., 1954 · Selby, Richard W

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  • Collingswood Adult NonFic
    338.76 Cus (AVAILABLE)

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  Joan D. Dickinson

• Publication Details

  Book, Enslow Publishers, 1997

• Description

  Presents a biography of the math whiz kid who grew up to co-found Microsoft, the world’s leading computer software firm.

• Tags

  Juvenile literature · Microsoft Corporation · History · Businesspeople · Biography · Computer software industry · Businessmen · Dickinson, Joan D

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  • Collingswood Juv NonFict
    jB GATES (AVAILABLE)

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• Attribution

  Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller

• Publication Details

  Book, Lst ed., Henry Holt and Co., 1998

• Description

  “Microsoft, a rather new corporation, may not have matured to the position where it understands how it should act with respect to the public interest.”-U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin Teamed with the daughter of one of Bill Gates’s closest associates, thirteen-year Microsoft veteran Marlin Eller shows us what it was like at every step along Gates’s route to world domination, making all that’s been written before seem like a rough guess.

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  Microsoft Corporation · Computer software industry · Edstrom, Jennifer · Eller, Marlin

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    338.7/610053 Eds (AVAILABLE)

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• Attribution

  by Marc Aronson

• Publication Details

  Book, Viking, 2009

• Description

  Bill Gates is many things: the richest person in the world; When Gates was born in 1955, no one in the world owned a personal computer. As a teenager, Gates realized how computers were about to change the world, and made his fortune by riding that wave;

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  Juvenile literature · Microsoft Corporation · History · Businessmen · Biography · Success in business · Computer software industry · Aronson, Marc

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• Attribution

  Julie Bick

• Publication Details

  Book, Pocket Books, 1997

• Description

  Veteran Microsoft manager Julie Bick takes you behind the scenes at one of the world’s most successful companies to share the invaluable lessons she learned there. Engaging and user-friendly, this insider’s guide to field-tested Microsoft strategies covers topics relevant to all aspects of your professional life — from managing your career, to leading a winning team, to running your own business.

• Tags

  Microsoft Corporation · Success in business · Bick, Julie

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  • Collingswood Adult NonFic
    650.1 Bic (AVAILABLE)

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