Technology Strategy and Management: The Legacy of Bill Gates.

The article discusses the legacy of Bill Gates, chairman of the board for Microsoft. Gates and Microsoft took advantage of opportunities including the production of DOS (Disk Operating System). Gates dropped out of Harvard University based on the belief that every desktop one day would have a PC (pe...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 25 - 27
Autor principal: Cusumano, Michael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2009
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          College dropouts
          Corporate history
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