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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

employees used to punch in and out of work. Tabulating machines helped people count and keep track of things, and as such were the predecessors of the computer. When Tom Watson, Sr., became CEO in 1914, tabulating was the smallest part of the operation. By the Great... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

choices. Third, despite widespread fears that people would lack the financial acumen to manage their own savings, defined contribution returns outpaced those from defined benefit plans. Watson Wyatt, a benefits and compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

  Working PapersExploring Inventory Trends in Six U.S. Retail Segments Authors:Adenekan (Nick) Dedeke and Noel H. Watson Abstract Our paper describes inventory trends for both public and private U.S. firms in six retail segments between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

countries I study, French civil law countries had, on average, stronger creditor rights that common law countries. Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Periodical:Foresight:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2003 (Revised February 2003)
  • Case

Office Depot, Inc.: Business Transformation (B)

By: James L. Heskett, Dan Maher, Daniel F. OBrien, Thomas Watson and Jeffrey F. Rayport
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Retail Industry
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  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone with the help of Thomas A. Watson 1877 Thomas Edison and a team of engineers create the phonograph 1879 Edison perfects the incandescent lightbulb 1882 Federation of Organized Trades and Labor... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

Watson Publication:In Effective Auditing for Corporates: Key Developments in Practice and Procedures, edited by Joe Oringel, 161-178. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2012 Abstract In the wake of the recent financial crisis,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS Healthcare and IBM’s Watson to find an answer. Clinical trials... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

over their own needs)." Mark Isaac pointed out that "Succession plans, open communication, and knowing that the company cares, create a learning environment." Gerald Nanninga's reference to findings of the biennial Global Workforce Study by Towers View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Letters

R. Watson (MBA ’66) Mt. Vernon, NY The March issue’s “Last Look” photo inspired several e-mail responses, including two that appear below. Games HBS Students Play When I was growing up in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in the 1930s and 1940s,... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • News

If I Were You

multiple resources. Leverage them and be bold and have fun. That’s what I would say. Jeremy Watson (MBA 2016): Jeremy Watson. Reach out to your professors now. Get their phone numbers and emails and bug them. That would be one [laughs].... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

it " would be enough to cause a resuscitated J.P. Morgan or Thomas Watson to look at today's corporate landscape and collapse with shock."). Through a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Books

risky venture told Watson, "I guess you want my resignation," Watson replied, "You can't be serious. We just spent $10 million educating you." David Garvin, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, uses this... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Diversity and Community

long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. As far back as 1914, IBM founder Thomas Watson made "respect for the individual" one of the three basic tenets of the company (the other two called for excellence in performance and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons