Topic: Bill Gates

Is intimidation an effective management strategy?

ThisIsLondon.co.uk - 1004 days ago
Barack Obama has his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a notorious hard nut and compulsive curser. As Obama said in a speech last week after Mother's Day in the US, "This is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he's not used ...

Should Businesses Save The World?

Forbes - 1129 days ago
At the World Economic Forum last year, Bill Gates, who is as successful a philanthropist as he is an entrepreneur, introduced an idea he calls " Slate's founding editor, Michael Kinsley, has attempted to unpack Gates' idea. If you can't find a ...

Gates, Mundie: Congress must make tradeoffs to propel tech's future

CNET - 1434 days ago
It's not always easy persuading politicians on Capitol Hill to take up items on Silicon Valley's wish list, even if you're Bill Gates and his posse. That was one message that the Microsoft chairman and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie ...

Bill Gates to Congress: Let us hire more foreigners

CNET - 1435 days ago
For the second year in a row, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ventured to Capitol Hill and urged Congress to let more foreign-born engineers work in the United States and to direct larger numbers of tax dollars to research and education. Just as ...

around the same time last year before a U.S. Senate committee

CNET - 1435 days ago
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday renewed his fight for " In only his third appearance ever at a congressional hearing, Gates urged politicians here on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to pursue a three-pronged approach to boosting ...

Gates calls for 'infinite' H-1Bs, better schools

CNET - 1803 days ago
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday renewed his fight for "infinite" H-1B guest-worker visas and improvements in U.S. education before largely receptive senators on Capitol Hill. In only his third appearance ever at a congressional hearing, Gates urged politicians here on the ...

Gates urges fixes for schools, H-1B visas

CNET - 1806 days ago
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday renewed his fight for "infinite" H-1B guest-worker visas and improvements in U.S. education before largely receptive senators on Capitol Hill. In only his third appearance ever at a congressional hearing, Gates urged politicians here on the ...

Bill Gates to address Senate panel

CNET - 1811 days ago
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill next week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for boosting American competitiveness. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee said Friday that it has lined up Gates ...