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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up Empowering youth in West Africa to access employment opportunities through vocational training. Business Track, 2012 Vaxess Technologies Michael A. Schrader Anura Patil Livio Valenti Patrick Ho Kathryn Kosuda Isa Watson Business... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

various academic appointments at Harvard University, specializing in Real Property Asset Management and General Management. He received his BS in mathematics, with distinction, from Stanford and his MBA, with high distinction, and DBA degrees from Harvard University.... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied risk associated with a large spread. As Mark View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

the Builder, strives not to reach a goal but to build an institution. Builders are legendary leaders such as IBM's Tom Watson Jr., GM's Alfred P. Sloan, and Harpo's Oprah Winfrey. These people serve their institutions by managing for the... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

those crossing the border to request asylum without “waiting in line” for fully documented or legal entry. (As economist Tara Watson and writer Kalee Thompson point out in their recent book, it is more accurate to say that under current... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Harvard Business School

- present Noel H. Watson Assistant Professor 2002 - 2009 2010s Henry W. McGee Senior Lecturer 2013 - present MBA 1979 Paula A. Price Senior Lecturer 2014 - present Steven S. Rogers Senior Lecturer 2012 - present MBA 1985 Shelle M. Santana... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ranjay Gulati, and Ryan Raffaelli. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the 2019 Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Award from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Best Student Paper... View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

revenues were $1.24 billion; Rand's were $145.5 million. Thomas Watson Jr., the executive most responsible for the change from data processing through electricity to electronics, noted: "While our great million dollar 700 got the... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

16 Nov 2011
News

Are Humans Cost-Effective?

On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 May 2015
Blog Post

5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

it. Here’s what Ashley Daniels (MBA’16), Jeremy Watson (MBA ‘16), and Ezra Okon (MBA ‘15) had to say about the case method and how it’s changed how they learn. The case method disrupts the traditional lecture-based classroom model Jeremy:... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

More than a Game

players in the scrum tight together and low to the ground so their combined strength is like one force,” Old Boys' president Steve Watson (MBA '77) explained while taking a breather from the action on a muddy field behind Harvard Stadium.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

Frank T. Cary

Following the legacies of Watson Sr. and Watson Jr., who ran IBM for almost 60 years, was no easy feat, but Cary more than proved his mettle. Under his direction, IBM expanded into new markets outside its... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Jun 2004
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Books

Birth of a Salesman by Walter A. Friedman Clearing the Hurdles by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart Just Enough by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson The Watson Dynasty by Richard S.... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

decentralized structure, IBM continued to expand further, acquiring ten new plants in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, and IBM came to control 80... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923. Over the next 30 years of Watson’s... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

shared with the other titans in this book a belief in the future. Watson had two decades of business experience by the time he became chief executive of Computing-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) in 1914. The situation he faced was not... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Faculty Research Online

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. Health Care... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

climate, and limited resources, Watson nevertheless lost all self-assurance when he returned home and had to find a job. There’s a common refrain among vets like Watson, says Goldenberg: “I’m just a door kicker. What have I done that a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

January 2022 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Expanding the Culture of Learning at Kraft Heinz

By: Ashley V. Whillans and Carolyn Watson

The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) was an American food company formed in 2015 by the merger of Kraft Foods Group, Inc and the H.J. Heinz Company. The company sold food products like Heinz Ketchup, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kool-Aid, and Philadelphia cream cheese to supermarkets,... View Details