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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
decentralized structure, IBM continued to expand further, acquiring ten new plants in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, and IBM came to control 80... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923. Over the next 30 years of Watson’s... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government subsidies for banks, and support for entrepreneurial culture, affect this industry and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in emerging economies. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
successfully reenter the working world after military service. “Three out of four people who walk into a recruiting station are rejected, so even the most rudimentary military job is held by a talented person,” says Goldenberg, executive... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
on such funding will no doubt raise another discussion point,” Vietor says, adding that federal subsidies will expire in 2012. Students will tackle these dilemmas and many others when the case is used in a fall MBA elective, The Energy Business and Geopolitics, taught... View Details
- 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... View Details
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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 View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports, 1937-1952 Annual reports typically include a letter to shareholders written by Edwin... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Capitalist Revolutions (DCR), was born. Taught initially in January 1996 by McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn, another business historian, DCR drew an enthusiastic response from the first students to take it. Essentially an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
desperate need to publish. And we start with the classic norms of science. We actually discuss this in terms of the discovery of DNA. Watson and Crick arguably violated scientific norms by relying on... View Details
- 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
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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
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details