Publications

October 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard and Orson Watson

As a child, Al Fuller had seen his working-class, African-American neighborhood disintegrate as factory jobs moved away. He resolved to help inner-city communities do better when he grew up. Some years later, as an accomplished university graduate with several years... View Details

Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Strategy; Management Style; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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

01 Sep 1979
Conference Presentation

A Researcher Visits the Teacher's Lounge

By: Teresa M. Amabile and M. W. Watson

Keywords: Research; Teaching

June 2007 (Revised August 2007)
Case

Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Edward Watson and Mara Vatz

Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology

2008
Chapter

How XBRL Will Dramatically Improve Reporting and Control Processes

By: Robert G. Eccles, Liv Watson and Mike Willis

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Applications and Software; Standards

January 2015
Case

CAI

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard T. Watson and Phil Weinzimer

19 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

Inevitably the visible hand has a strategy, no matter how implicit, short sighted or incoherent that strategy may be. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-037.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2007
Article

Here Comes XBRL

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Liv A. Watson and Mike Willis

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information

Find at Harvard

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Link: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/bookseller/ academic/product/0,3110,0136000886,00.html How XBRL Will Dramatically Improve: Reporting and Control Processes Authors: Robert G Eccles., Liv Watson and Mike Willis Publication: Chap. 25 in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2006
Article

New Format and Technology Drives Enhanced Business Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Liv A. Watson and James A. Fisher

Keywords: Technology; Reports

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

enough credibility with physicians in terms of their health care expertise? IBM: IBM has entered the health care data fray with IBM Watson Health, which is intended to bring together clinical, research, and social data from a range of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

with the classic norms of science. We actually discuss this in terms of the discovery of DNA. Watson and Crick arguably violated scientific norms by relying on information that had been gathered by other researchers. Nevertheless, they... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

January 2003 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Office Depot, Inc.: Business Transformation (A)

By: James L. Heskett, Dan Maher, Daniel F. OBrien, Thomas Watson and Jeffrey F. Rayport

The company's management is considering the possibility of launching a rebranding campaign around the promises "What you need. What you need to know." The questions are whether and when to launch the campaign in view of the large number of training efforts and... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Advertising Campaigns; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Transformation; Market Timing; Growth and Development; Training; Retail Industry