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View from the Top: Steven Ballmer: Additional Reading

 

Steven A. Ballmer joined a tiny startup called Microsoft in 1980 at the invitation of his college friend, founder Bill Gates. In a variety of roles that placed him second only to Gates, Ballmer played a crucial role in Microsoft's growth into the most powerful force in the computer industry. He became Microsoft's chief executive officer in 2001. Ballmer's exuberant, aggressive, and highly competitive personality helped shape the company's strategy and was critical to its success. More

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Microsoft without Gates. Fortune, 6/26/08
The challenge isn't replacing Bill. That's already happened. Ballmer's big issues now: growth, Google, and those pesky Apple ads.
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Ballmer heads the new age of leaders stepping into the breach. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/24/08
Steve Ballmer has been Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive for more than eight years, grappling with some of the largest challenges in the company's history.
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Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future. Washington Post, 6/5/08
In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media.
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CEO Forum: Microsoft's Ballmer having a 'great time'. USAToday, 4/30/07
It's a good thing that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has so much energy.
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How We Did It. Newsweek, 6/23/97
In 1980, several years after leaving Harvard to found Microsoft, Bill Gates decided he needed help running the still-fledgling business. He turned to Steve Ballmer, a brilliant, hard-charging college classmate who had worked at Procter & Gamble and gone to Stanford Business School.
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Selected Books

	Guanxi (The art of relationships) : Microsoft, China, and Bill Gates's plan to win the road ahead by Robert Buderi and Gregory T. Huang New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2006. HD9696.63.U62 B83 2006
	Bad boy Ballmer : the man who rules Microsoft by Fredric Alan Maxwell. New York : Morrow, c2002. HD9696.63.U62 B355 2002

Selected Websites

Microsoft Corporation

Fireside chat with Guy Kawasaki

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