Publications

October 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Supplement

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

By: Herman B. Leonard and Orson Watson

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

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

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

Find at Harvard

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

01 Sep 1979
Conference Presentation

A Researcher Visits the Teacher's Lounge

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

Keywords: Research; Teaching

21 Mar 2019
News

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

Web

Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Watson Library of Business and Economics, Columbia University Debra Wallace Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard Director, Special Collections, Knowledge and Library Services Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien... View Details

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

2012
Chapter

Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated Assurance

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Liv A. Watson

In the wake of the recent financial crisis, increasing the effectiveness of auditing has weighed heavily on the minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Crime and Corruption; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Governance Compliance; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Laws and Statutes; Information Management; Accounting Audits; Financial Crisis

January 2015
Case

CAI

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

01 Sep 2003
News

Class Day & Commencement

Class Day Student Speaker Brendan McGeever (MBA ’03). More Class Day and Commencement photos. Photography by Stuart Cahill and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Conditions were cloudy and cool but the mood was festive on June 4 as members of the Class of 2003, their families, and... View Details

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

09 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Wellesley is a place that creates a new normal, and it has built a very strong network of strong, inspiring and encouraging women. What’s something you’ve done that you’re proud of? I spent a year traveling on my own after college – I had won a View Details

Web

Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

popular platform provides automatic text captioning of the audio uploaded onto YouTube. Watson speech-to-text API : a machine learning API that can transcribe audio files into text, among other capabilities. VLC player : a free, open... View Details

Web

Fellows | MBA

Statistics Dunster 2023 Cohort 4 Eva Tuecke Computer Science Mather 2025 Cohort 7 Shruthi Venkata Computer Science/Comparative Literature Leverett 2022 Cohort 4 Daniela Villafuerte Electrical Engineering (SB) Eliot 2021 Cohort 2 Anna Wang Computer Science Cabot 2022... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He was 40 years old at the time. Watson was also 40 when he went to CTR in 1914; that company... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

February 2007
Article

Here Comes XBRL

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

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information