Building the IBM Empire: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology

Author: W. Pouya Emerson (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The WanTai Building rose from the ground up, and IBM also experienced a journey from small to large, from weak to strong. From Hollerith to the Watson, from CTR to IBM, from entrepreneurship to development, from mergers to expansion. This book tells the origin and organization of IBM, how the company coped with the Great Depression, its relationships with academia and the government, as well as its pursuit and admiration of technology, its investment in patents and product development. Key figures who made outstanding contributions to IBM's development, such as Hollerith, the Watson, Bles, MacDowell, Palmer, are also introduced in this book. For company managers, the experience of IBM's successful development is very worth learning from.