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Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. [1] [2] 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. [3]
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 Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81).
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.
Dec 13, 2023 · Like his father, Tom Watson Jr. was a political liberal; he refused to permit racial segregation in IBM’s southern plants and opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts. But they...
Thomas J. Watson Sr. created a model corporation for the 20th century. Guided by a set of human-centric principles, he redefined culture and management for generations of CEOs and reframed industry’s role as an indispensable partner in meeting society’s challenges. IBM came to rule the information technology market under Watson’s ...
Dec 7, 1998 · THOMAS WATSON JR. The man who built IBM into a computer giant was racked by angst at the notion of filling his father's shoes. But worry was a relentless motivator.
Oct 26, 2023 · Tom Watson Jr. was CEO of IBM during the period when that company created the modern computer industry and launched the digital age. More than Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford or even Gates,...
May 28, 2016 · Thomas Watson Jr. turned IBM from a calculator maker into the world’s largest manufacturer of mainframe computers.
Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, and IBM came to control 80 percent of the American computer market by the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Tom Watson, Jr., together with a cadre of seasoned, dedicated executives, drove, nudged, and inspired IBM into a place of preeminence in the computer age, and provided a restless, challenging, and rewarding environment that attracted outstanding men and women by the thousands.
