This document provides information about Microsoft's board of directors, values, vision and strategy, and qualifications they look for in candidates. It lists the current board members and their backgrounds. It also outlines Microsoft's values of integrity, honesty, openness, excellence and respect. Their vision is to serve hundreds of millions of customers globally through new growing businesses that help people and organizations reach their full potential through a diverse team. They seek candidates with strong analytical, problem solving, leadership, collaboration, customer focus, strategic and technical skills.

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4. Board of DirectorsSteven A. BallmerChief Executive Officer, Microsoft CorporationJames I. Cash Jr., Ph.D.Emeritus James E. Robison Professor, Harvard Business SchoolDina DublonFormer Chief Financial Officer, JPMorgan ChaseWilliam H. Gates IIIChairman, Microsoft CorporationRaymond V. GilmartinFormer Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc.Reed HastingsFounder, Chairman and CEO, Netflix, Inc.David F. MarquardtGeneral Partner, August CapitalCharles H. NoskiFormer Vice Chairman, AT&T CorporationDr. Helmut PankeFormer Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

10. INTERNATIONAL AWARD’SCorporate Voices of Courage, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

11. Best Employers—Central and Eastern Europe, Hewitt Associates

12. Best Workplaces in Europe 2007, Financial Times and Great Place to Work Institute Europe

13. Best Workplaces in Latin America 2007, Great Place to Work Institute Latin America