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, which had the potential to ...

Louis V. Gerstner Jr., who as the first outsider to head International Business Machines steered the company away from what looked like a possible demise and refocused it on services, reducing ...

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, Jobs, and ...

During the 1940s, Thomas Watson Jr. had not yet achieved the status of a business legend who would go on to help turn IBM into an industry powerhouse. Instead, he was a young executive getting to ...

Thomas Watson Jr. knew he had to shoot for the stratosphere to reach his father's level as IBM's CEO. He also wanted to rise in his own style while carrying International Business Machines (IBM) with ...

Thomas J. Watson Jr. was worried about how he could make his mark as a leader in the shadow of his famous father. Watson Sr. had been named general manager of a maker of simple tabulators in 1914 and ...