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    Heskett Column: Where Is the Microsoft Board? ADDL RES

     
    7/17/2000
    Articles

    Items marked with the HBS shield () are available online only to HBS alumni subscribers to the eBaker Research Center and to current HBS faculty, students and staff.

    "It's a Look Back to the Early 1980's for New Economy Boards," Korn/Ferry International, May 22, 2000

    "Dot.Com Boards Are Flouting the Rules," Business Week, December 20, 1999.

    "The Board Game," Network World, April 26, 1999

    The 1999 High Tech Board Index  Annual study from Spencer Stuart's Global High Technology Practice

    The Internet Board Index 99 Spencer Stuart

    "Building the Board," Inc., November 1, 1999

    "Directors' Boards are Clueless About the Internet," Computerworld, July 12, 1999

    "Beam Yourself Up to the Boardroom," Management Today, May 1999

    "Corporate Accountability: 10 Things You Know About Corporate Boards That Are Wrong," Speech by Ralph D. Ward, Publisher of Boardroom Insider, March 2, 1998

    Books

    Boards at Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage by Ram Charan
    Jossey-Bass, 1998

    The 21st Century Corporate Board by Ralph D. Ward
    Wiley, 1997

    Developing Directors : Building an Effective Boardroom Team by Colin Coulson-Thomas
    McGraw-Hill, 1993

    Trust On Trial: How the Microsoft Case is Reframing the Rules of Competition by Richard B. McKenzie
    Perseus, 2000

    Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews
    Simon & Schuster, 1994

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    Microsoft
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    Hoover's Company Capsule
    Microsoft OneSource Company Profile

     

    National Association of Corporate Directors
    http://www.nacdonline.org/

    Corporate Governance
    http://www.corpgov.net/

    Institute of Internal Auditors
    http://www.theiia.org/

    The Director's New Clothes (chapter 3 from Power and Accountability by Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minnow)
    http://www.thecorporatelibrary.com/power/chapter3.html
     

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