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Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year

Posted by samzenpus on from the teaching!-teaching!-teaching! dept.

redletterdave (2493036) writes "When Steve Ballmer announced he was stepping down from Microsoft's board of directors, he cited a fall schedule that would "be hectic between teaching a new class and the start of the NBA season." It turns out Ballmer will teach an MBA class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business in the fall, and a class at USC's Marshall School of Business in the spring. Helen Chang, assistant director of communications at Stanford's Business School, told Business Insider that Ballmer will be working with faculty member Susan Athey for a strategic management course called "TRAMGT588: Leading organizations." As for the spring semester, Ballmer will head to Los Angeles — closer to where his Clippers will be playing — and teach a course at University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. We reached out to the Marshall School, which declined to offer more details about Ballmer's class.

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  1. The first ever business course by silentcoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    that will include a chapter on how to select the most throwable chair.

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  2. I'd love to be in his class by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and know what not to do. If anything Steve is the textbook example on how an MBA brought zero growth to Microsoft, and destroyed not only two biggest cash cows in history, Windows & Office, but doomed the company to failure by de-incentiving through MBA theory of the week games like bands, to constantly backdooring H1B1'ing the workforce.

    Gates made Microsoft, but Balmer destroyed it.

    1. Re:I'd love to be in his class by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Gates made Microsoft, but Balmer destroyed it.

      By what metric?

      http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/msft/financials
      $62 Billion in revenue in 2010 and 87 Billion when he retired.

      Compare these to win Ballmer first took over

      "REDMOND, Wash., July 18, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $22.96 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, a 16 percent increase over the $19.75 billion reported last year. Net income totaled $9.42 billion."

      So under his 14 year reign, revenue damn near quadrupled. It would appear that the only place he failed is in your mind.