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  • 19 Jun 2007
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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 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
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

807-133 Considers the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capacity as President of the International Chamber of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
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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
  • 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.
  • 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

Arthur ("Dick") Watson and his brother Tom, the head of IBM; and several members of Cleveland's Corning clan, whose assets came from, among other things, oil and banking. In 1966, with the addition of the Ayer-Rice Trust, which oversaw... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
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2010 Leadership Fellows

Eleven graduating MBAs have taken positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the support of the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. The program awards key management positions for one year at competitive salaries. This year’s fellows are (front row)... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 12 Aug 2008
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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
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

gerontocracy. What if John Hartford had had a son who was bound and determined that he could post a better record at the company than his father did? That is what happened at IBM. Thomas J. Watson Sr. had built IBM from a motley... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

never change. Since its founding in 1911, the company operated under a set of principles articulated by founder Thomas Watson and became known for a strong culture and a commitment to fairness and social responsibility. As IBM entered its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

ago when Jeff Hawkins came across a Scientific American article by Francis Crick—famed half of the DNA discovery duo Watson and Crick. “He wrote this powerful essay about how we have no idea how the brain works, and how we need a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

previous books: the Watsons of IBM, Sam Walton, for example. What led you to focus this time on Andy Grove? Tedlow: Having looked at CEO's, as you mentioned, in other books, and really having studied the phenomenon of the chief executive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14189 Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-057.pdf Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

helped craft an emergency act to allow the use of remote medicine. "Our clinics were the first to see COVID-19 patients online," says Oishi. "We are assisting clinics to set up remote medicine systems and operations." JUNE 8 Annemarie View Details
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China—one of the few remaining “blank areas of the map.” His objective: to scale the great Minya Konka, height unknown Big Blue’s Big Bet IBM Watson is redefining the legendary tech company—and every industry it touches The Middle Way How... View Details