• DocumentCode
    1088303
  • Title

    The Long Arc Behind Bill Gates´ Wealth

  • Author

    Greenstein, Shane

  • Author_Institution
    Kellogg Graduate School of Management
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    4
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    In June of 2008, William Gates Jr. will step down as chief software architect at Microsoft. Greenstein measures Gates´ career against the yardstick applied to history´s great robber barons, examining the difference between fair and foul. Which mattered most in Bill Gates´ career, and why?
  • Keywords
    Commercialization; Conductive films; Engineering profession; History; IEEE news; Internet; Law; Microcomputers; Motion pictures; Retirement; Microsoft; William Gates; antitrust; browser; bundling; competition; economics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.2008.17
  • Filename
    4460506