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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Two years ago, if you bet me five bucks that I was going to be a school-teacher, I would have taken that bet in a heartbeat.” When his students question the relevance of precalculus to their future lives, entrepreneur turned high-school math teacher Steve View Details
- 26 Apr 2024
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Why IBM's Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Was a Lousy Tutor
- 16 Jul 2021
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What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?
- 19 Nov 2019
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Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
players in the scrum tight together and low to the ground so their combined strength is like one force,” Old Boys' president Steve Watson (MBA '77) explained while taking a breather from the action on a muddy field behind Harvard Stadium.... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
climate, and limited resources, Watson nevertheless lost all self-assurance when he returned home and had to find a job. There’s a common refrain among vets like Watson, says Goldenberg: “I’m just a door kicker. What have I done that a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Birth of a Salesman by Walter A. Friedman Clearing the Hurdles by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart Just Enough by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson The Watson Dynasty by Richard S.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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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 Class of 2003, their families, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
powerhouse The Deutsche Bank The evolution of a champion universal bank American Capitalism How the most market-oriented of all major national economies evolved IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watsons Maintaining competitive advantage while... 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 information that had been gathered by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Faculty Research Online
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. Health Care... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
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 Apr 2000
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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 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He was 40 years old at the time. Watson was also 40 when he went to CTR in 1914; that company... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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