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Friday, December 30, 2005 3:07 PM

Request from a university student

I received a request today from William Prado to help drive people to a study he is doing that is very similar to many of my blog entries. Instead of describing it myself, I have copied the text he wrote for me. Please note that neither Microsoft or I
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Friday, December 30, 2005 2:26 PM

All courseware from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Did you know that you can get the courseware for a variety of MTC courses online, for free? I can’t imagine spending the time to go through all of the lectures, readings, assignments, exams, labs, and all other materials for each undergraduate and graduate
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Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:37 PM

New approaches to sales and marketing strategies

When writing a business plan you of course need to think about your Marketing Strategy and Sales Strategy. The Chase Market Velocity blog has an interesting and useful way of looking at traditional approaches for marketing and sales strategies compared
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Monday, December 26, 2005 1:40 PM

Tips for a good Business Plan

I’ve been thinking of turning a couple of ideas into actual business plans and seeing what becomes of them within Microsoft, so I have been refreshing my knowledge of what’s in a business plan. Joe Hadzima has some good tips to keep in mind when writing
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:42 PM

Handbook for a manager

Business 2.0 has a good article about a handbook of sorts that they say CEOs swear by. Below is my version or interpretation of their list that should really apply to any manager, not just a CEO: Have the right strategy Admit when you don’t understand
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:44 PM

Fellow Microsoftees: Let's get a rail system

This blog is for my peers at Microsoft: Having this cool little rail system around campus would make it a heck of a lot easier to get to meetings on time. Check out the photos and videos at http://gettherefast.org/bettercampus/bc-ms1.html#1 - from what
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:30 AM

Microsoft Student 2006

I don't have kids and I'm way past the 8th grade. However, I am very jealous that I didn't have anything as cool as Microsoft Student 2006 when I was in school. There is a great review of it by a father and son who give it two thumbs up at http://office.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000337070913
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