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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
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Bockhoff of National Automatic Tool also worked at NCR, as did Joseph E. Rodgers of Addressograph-Multigraph, Henry Theobold of Toledo Scale, William Sherman of Standard Register, and Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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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
- 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
Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, 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 :... 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
- 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
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Jun 2004
- News
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
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
- October 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Supplement
Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (C)
By: Herman B. Leonard and Orson Watson
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
Leonard, Herman B., and Orson Watson. "Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 307-066, October 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
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
- June 2010
- Case
The Shaw Group Inc.: Entrepreneurial Innovation
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Edward Watson
The case describes the founding and evolution of the Shaw Group through acquisition. The case is set at the time that the company is redesigning its business processes, organization, and information technology infrastructure to support aggressive growth and increased... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Information Technology
Applegate, Lynda M., and Edward Watson. "The Shaw Group Inc.: Entrepreneurial Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 810-135, June 2010.
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