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  1. Internal evolution toward an industry revolution. As IBM’s new leader, Watson Jr. forcefully committed the company’s future to computers, establishing it as a pioneer in an industry that it would come to lead for decades. Making the shift to computers required a complex internal overhaul.

  2. Mar 1, 2007 · Fund chief Thomas J. Watson III successfully challenged the legality of the adoption in Connecticut, where his father died. Spado is appealing that decision, and is fighting another attempt by the trust to have the adoption annulled in Maine.

  3. Mar 19, 2007 · The family, descendants of Thomas Watson Sr., the founder of IBM, owns much of the northern tip of this sea-splashed idyll, more than 300 acres worth nearly $20 million.

  4. Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson , he was the second IBM president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States ...

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  6. Sep 1, 1990 · Tom Watson Jr. spent most of his life coming to grips with what his father had wrought, and with the expectation that it was his duty to succeed the great man. As in many father-son relationships, words weren’t needed to convey that powerful expectation.

  7. Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR.

  8. May 24, 2004 · For over seventy years, Thomas Watson Sr. and Thomas Watson Jr. shaped and built IBM. In a new book, Professor Richard Tedlow explores the complex relationship between father and son.

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