Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Mara says Harvard's accounts are really money owed to the University by other companies who cannot pay Harvard what they owe it. Companies that owe Harvard money and have turned checks over to the treasurer's office include IBM, AT&T, Sunoco and McGraw Hill...
According to Mara, some of the money owed to the Business School is held by companies in which the University has investments. Philip Morris, for example, owes the school a $150 dividend check. In addition, IBM appears to owe the Harvard Coop some investment-related money, Mara says...
...brought Boris Karpov, another world-champion grandmaster, to Harvard to play a match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, the world's most powerful chess-playing computer...
...David Halberstam, prizewinning journalist and best-selling social chronicler, simply calls the period transitional, a truism that could apply to any decade. Likewise, his thesis that events of the '50s set the stage for the '60s, '70s and beyond is as safe as it once was to invest in IBM...
...never dull, tracks the growth of Nintendo from a Japanese playing-card company founded in 1889 to an international video-game behemoth that by 1992 consistently earned after-tax profits of more than $500 million a year. That's more than all U.S. movie studios combined and more than IBM, Apple or Microsoft...