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Author
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1963, IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr.'s A Business and Its Beliefs gave readers an unprecedented look inside IBM's executive offices. Watson, son of IBM's founder candidly discussed how the company clung to its values during the first great technological shift, and how this refusal to compromise became IBM's strength. He also became one of the first CEOs to question business's place and responsibility in society, and openly discuss how...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Here is the first in-depth look at IBM's recovery and the man who is leading it, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Author Doug Garr chronicles Gerstner's rise, his arrival as the first steward from outside the company's ranks, and his implementation of new business and marketing strategies. Drawn from more than 150 interviews and hundreds of pages of documents, Garr paints a portrait of the improbable transformation of this dying mainframe company into an increasingly...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Watson Jr. drove IBM to undertake the biggest gamble in business history with a revolution no other company of the age could dare--the creation in the 1960s of the IBM System/360, the world's first fully integrated and compatible mainframe computer that laid the foundation for the information technology future. Its success made IBM the most valuable company in America. Fortune magazine touted him as "the greatest capitalist who ever lived."...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--
"In 1946, John Stanley Ford was hired as the IBM's firs black software engineer. But many of the company's white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit, recognizing that he had an obligation to his race as a "first."...