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  • 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
  • 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
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

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 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
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

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
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

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 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
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

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
  • 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
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

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
  • First Look

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
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Past Issues - Alumni

from HBS to venture to the remote western edge of 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... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

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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