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   Business. 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 ...

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   Thomas J. Watson Jr. He modernized a bastion of the global information industry to prepare it for even greater success in the computer age He placed an “all-in” bet on a first-of-its-kind computer and reaped for IBM the fortunes of a new technological age.

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   May 5, 2024 · Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (born January 8, 1914, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died December 31, 1993, Greenwich, Connecticut) was an American business executive who inherited the leadership of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from his father, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., and propelled the company into the computer age.

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   Who is Thomas Watson Jr?

   • Thomas Watson Jr. was born on January 14, 1914, just before his father, Thomas J. Watson, was dismissed from his job at cash register company NCR – an act which subsequently drove Watson Sr., to the foundation of the largest and most profitable digital computer manufacturer in the world, IBM Corporation.

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   Did Thomas Watson fight in World War II?

   • In a previous version of this episode, we stated that Thomas Watson Jr. fought on the side of the United States in World War II while IBM, under his father's leadership, was doing business with the Nazi regime.

   How IBM's gamble ushered in the computer age - NPR

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   Why did Watson Jr take over IBM?

   • In a sense, Watson Jr. was founding a new company when he took over IBM, and the need to prove himself meant that he ran the firm like an entrepreneur rather than an heir. Instead of surrounding himself with yes-men, he preferred, he wrote, “sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who could see and tell me about things as they really were.”

   The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ - The Atlantic

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   • The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son. New York: HarperBusiness. ISBN 978-0-06-001405-6 Watson Jr., Thomas J.; Petre, Peter (1990). Father, Son & Co.: my life at IBM and beyond.

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   Dec 13, 2023 · But The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived, a briskly told biography of Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM’s mid-20th-century CEO, makes clear that the history of the company offers much more than...

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   May 29, 2018 · Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1914-1993) assumed control of International Business Machines (IBM) from his father in 1956. Under his leadership, IBM entered the computer market, focusing on sales, service, and adaptation. He also changed IBM's management style and invested in new plants and laboratories.

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   Thomas J. Watson, Jr. IBM. 1955–1971. Industry: Computers & Electronics. Era: 1950. Though his father had turned IBM into a tremendously successful company, the firm that Thomas Jr. inherited was largely a mix of loosely organized divisions that competed with one another for resources.

10. www.npr.org › 2023/10/23 › 1197956188The story of IBM System/360 and Thomas Watson Jr.'s innovator ...

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    Oct 23, 2023 · ASSOCIATED PRESS. In the book of corporate folklore, former IBM CEO Thomas Watson Jr. deserves a special spot. Specifically, the massive gamble he took in 1964 to introduce the System/360,...