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Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | July 2009

Microsoft's Search (TN)

by Jan W. Rivkin and Eric J. Van den Steen

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Teaching Note for [709461].

Keywords: Competition; Online Advertising; Search Technology; Strategy; Markets; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry;

Format: Print 23 pages Purchase

Citation:

Rivkin, Jan W., and Eric J. Van den Steen. "Microsoft's Search (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 710-416, July 2009.

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Jan W. Rivkin
C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program
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Eric J. Van den Steen
Royal Little Professor of Business Administration
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