He also co-authored The New Capitalists with Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik, which describes how structures of corporate governance can help ensure companies work in the interest of the millions of individuals who own their shares.
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He went on to win a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation to Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he graduated with an M.A. and MBA in 1980.
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In February 2000 he helped initiate and served on the Co-operative Commission (also known as the Monks Commission after its Chair, John Monks), established by Tony Blair, to help revive the fortunes of the UK Co-operative movement.
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Scotland: HH Johnston (Edinburgh University RFC), Malcolm Cross, RC MacKenzie, EI Pocock (Edinburgh Wanderers), JR Hay-Gordon, SH Smith, DH Watson, D Lang, C Villar, RW Irvine capt.
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Towards the end of 2013 Li Ka-shing appointed three Banks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and HSBC take control of a share sale of the A.S Watson Group during 2014.
Abouelkassem qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics and entered the individual foil event in the round of 32, defeating American Miles Chamley-Watson 15-10.
Alfred "Alf" Watson from Portobello, Wakefield, is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, and Leeds, he was a Prisoner of war in World War II.
Jacob was born in Jessore, Bangladesh, second surviving son of Captain Vickers Jacob (1789-1836), Indian army and later merchant and landholder in New South Wales, and his wife Anne née Watson (1796-1836).
Bradley C.S. Watson, a Professor of Political Science at Saint Vincent College is also a member of the board.
At first, Watson did not show interest in the OHL, and verbally committed to the University of Maine Black Bears, planning on playing for the US U-17 team.
The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descended relative of pioneering race car driver Tim Birkin.
It was built by Charles Hill Turner in 1906-1907 for local attorney William Alexander Blount on the site of the three-story Blount-Watson Building, which had burned on Halloween night in 1905.
After his death, Jennens' second cousin Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford inherited his music library and much of it is now preserved in the Henry Watson Music Library at Manchester Central Library.
In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.
Watson purchased a building for Rochester Homeopathic Hospital which became Genesee Hospital in Rochester.
The 1977 Open Championship in golf, which saw an epic duel between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
In 1782 he inherited the Watson-Wentworth estates (including Wentworth Woodhouse) on the death of his uncle Lord Rockingham, which made him one of the greatest landowners in the country.
A guest of Commodore Edward H. Watson, he was on board the US destroyer Delphy which ran aground during the Honda Point Disaster in 1923.
Watson was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.
Watson was born in Frankfort, Kentucky on August 24, 1842, the grandson of renowned Kentucky politician John J. Crittenden.
A Christmas 2012 object of his satire was Donald Trump of whom Watson commented "mastering the billionaire's hairstyle was harder than getting the voice right".
At Sun Microsystems JavaOne conference in June 2004, Sun announced that they had licensed the Watson technology and were porting it to the Java programming language under the name Project Alameda.
Watson, Don; Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM; Random House Australia; 2002; ISBN 978-0091835170
Kerplunk experiment, a famous experiment of psychology conducted by John Watson
Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (directed by Bob Clampett, 1943).
After Asche's death in 1936, Brayton married Dr. Douglas Chalmers Watson and moved to Drem in East Lothian.
Meedan’s translation technology has been developed in collaboration with The Watson Research Group at IBM with which it entered into a research partnership in 2006.
James Michael Creeth (3 October 1924 – 15 January 2010) was an English biochemist whose experiments on DNA viscosity confirming the existence of hydrogen bonds between the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA were crucial to Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
With six metal stream deals completed and the first revenue from Sandstorm Gold in his sights, Watson saw an opportunity to apply the metal streaming business model to the base metal, bulk commodity and energy sectors and Sandstorm Metals & Energy was born.
Born in Kingston, Watson attended art classes at the Junior Centre of the Institute of Jamaica from 1948 until 1952; from that year until 1958 he attended the Jamaica School of Art in Kingston.
Rockingham Castle was a popular haunt of writer Charles Dickens who was a great friend of Richard and Lavinia Watson, ancestors of the current family.
His water-colours and miniatures were engraved by Bartolozzi, William Nutter, Caroline Watson, and others.
A few leads point to the docks by the Thames, and there, Holmes and Watson learn that similar kidnappings have occurred.
A series of riddles and clues lead Watson on a hunt for inscribed jewels hidden at several famous sites across the city, including Westminster Abbey, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London Bridge, and Big Ben.
Lanfield's most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Through member Watson Barrett, the Illustrator's Show of 1925 was held at the Shubert Theatre, and the Shuberts purchased the rights to the skits for their Broadway productions of Artists and Models.
Men - Roland Schoeman, Gideon Louw, Darian Townsend, Leath Shankland, Jean Basson, Jasper Venter, Mark Randall, Gerhardus Zandberg, Charl Crous, Darren Murray, Cameron van der Burgh, Neil Versfeld, Thabang Moeketsane, Neil Watson, Garth Tune, Chad le Clos, Riaan Schoeman, Malesela Molepo, Edward Johanniesen
The gritty Flyers who were led by 3-time league MVP winner Bobby Clarke, great play by several Flyers including Rick MacLeish, Wayne Stevenson in goal, and even a shorthanded goal by light scoring defenseman Joe Watson, also Ed Van Impe delivered a hard hit on the CSKA's top player, Valeri Kharlamov, knocking the latter prone on the ice for a minute, and the Soviet coach pulled his team from the ice in protest of the officials' ruling that the hit was a legal play.
Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Best House in London (1969), and Silver Blaze (1977).
Watson finds out where Lady Frances went, and inquires at the Englischer Hof in Baden, Germany.
Previously, Macnee had portrayed Watson three times: once to Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 TV movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York and twice with Christopher Lee (Incident at Victoria Falls and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady).
# The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephone call is described in his autobiography by Thomas A. Watson some year's after Bell's death.
Towers Watson was formed on January 4, 2010, by the merger of Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
Charles Moore Watson (1844–1916) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures (also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies "troni ponderacionem"—which the Public Record Commissioners translates as "troy weight".
Vets4Pets was founded in 2001 by CEO Peter Watson, opening the first practices in Eccleshill and Bramley.
Watson Nyambek (born February 27, 1976) from Miri, Sarawak is a Malaysian sprinter.
It was designed by the Buffalo architectural firm of Green & Wicks and built in 1891–1892.
Among the hotel's notable guests was Mark Twain, who wrote about the city's crows he saw outside his balcony in Following the Equator.
The pulpit was given as a memorial to B. Watson, Esq, and two stained glass windows were added in memory of Frederick Humby, an old Watts boy who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of 1912.