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Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat | Baker Library
area select Complete Financial Statements (XLS) Step One: Date Range Select desired start and end years Step Two: Search Click Code lookup ; a new window will open Type company name, e.g. Xerox , into search box; hit Lookup codes Copy and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
(CBS: 60 Minutes) (CBS: 60 Minutes) For anyone else, it would be enough—to somehow survive being taken hostage in Yemen. In 1998, Mary Quin (MBA 1988), a senior executive at Xerox and inveterate traveler was touring the conservative... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
and the page description language that evolved into Adobe. But since the company's sights were then fixed on its copier and large-systems printer businesses, Xerox missed the opportunity to take advantage of its scientists' genius.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
for five years before moving over to Xerox in 1978. “I like to learn,” Barron has said. “And I like to do.” That straightforward philosophy led to a multifaceted, 21-year career at Xerox, where she held senior leadership roles in the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
as a meteorologist for the Amy Air Forces during World War II before attending HBS. There he joined the class of 1949—which also included “James E. Burke, who later headed Johnson & Johnson; C. Peter McColough of Xerox Corp.; Thomas S.... View Details
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Eric Sonnier
generator sets in the field and collected feedback from engineers.” He did a number of site visits “and got my elbows dirty, but I wasn’t really passionate about it.” A subsequent internship with Xerox in Rochester, New York, through the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
and managed to realize this joint value; and each participant must earn a sufficient return to justify the investment. The second element—managing complex collections of people, products, and partners—presents a formidable challenge for executives. Take the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
When she describes the experience today, Mary P. Quin (MBA '88) remains composed and thoughtful. Yet four years ago, Quin, a seasoned world traveler who had visited over sixty countries, was taken hostage in the desert of Yemen and faced what seemed a certain and... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
the potential for building new products out of their existing inventions." Take Xerox, for example. Its research center, Xerox PARC, famously had invented the graphical user interface, mouse, laser printing, and other technologies... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
Word, for example? The problem: Overshooting the market can open the way for disruptive technologies that are cheaper and simpler to take root. So Xerox was eventually disrupted by less expensive copiers from Ricoh and Canon, Western... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
platform, that often cannibalize each other, and that are simple, elegant, and easy to use. It borrows good ideas from organizations such as Xerox and Gap but practices secrecy with its own ideas. Its strengths and interests reflect its... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale business enterprises like DuPont, GE, Westinghouse, IBM, Kodak, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
the years. To Nation contributor Calvin Trillin, who claims Navasky originally hired him for a salary in the “high two figures,” The Nation is “a pinko sheet on cheap paper.” (Trillin adds that it’s the only magazine whose pages look better View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
have to select as heterogeneous a group as possible, representing different experiences, thinking styles, cultures, and attitudes. Sometimes, groups get a boost from the addition of customers or professionals from outside the company who can add a totally fresh... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
just made the biggest mistake of my life by thinking that I could fit in at HBS. I learned that my 75 sectionmates had been working on Wall Street or in banks or as salesmen for Xerox and IBM. At least six of them were certified public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North