IBM Mid America Employees Federal Credit Union changed its name to Think Mutual Bank
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Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Thomas John Watson Sr. 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. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines.
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business · American businessman (1874–1956) · entrepreneur · chief executive officer · also Thomas John Watson, Sr., Thomas J. Watson, Thomas John Watson Sr., Thomas Watson, Sr., Thomas Watson, Sr.
Born 17 February 1874 · Died 19 June 1956 · Q435716
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1995· 1 entry
And continues as a conference and retreat center
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1985· 1 entry
The story was discussed on Usenet (in net
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1956· 6 entries
Died 1956-06-19.
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In Manhattan, New York City, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York
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“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.”
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IBM's revenues were $897 million, and the company had 72,500 employees
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“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
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“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.”
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1955· 2 entries
And donated Watson Hall, primarily a music and mathematics academic building
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And his wife gave it, along with one million dollars, to the Methodist Church for use as a retreat and conference center, to be named Watson Homestead in memory of his parents
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble (1950).
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1949· 1 entry
Created the IBM World Trade Corporation in order to oversee IBM's foreign business
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1947· 1 entry
Won Medal for Merit (1947).
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1946· 2 entries
IBM provided land and funding for Triple Cities College, an extension of Syracuse University
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Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the famous naturalist), head of Britain's NPL (National Physical Laboratory), where research into computers was taking place, wrote: it is very possible that
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1944· 1 entry
Earned Silver Buffalo Award (1944).
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1943· 1 entry
Then, as Gordon Bell pointed out in his ACM 50 years celebration keynote, it would have held true for some ten years
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1941· 1 entry
Watson received the third highest salary and compensation package in the U
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1940· 1 entry
Noted that "This word is on the most conspicuous wall of every room in every IBM building
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1939· 1 entry
Received an honorary degree in Doctor of Commercial Science from Oglethorpe University
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1937· 5 entries
Awarded Order of the German Eagle presented by Adolf Hitler (1937).
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Watson was awarded the Order of the German Eagle by Adolf Hitler
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Was elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and at that year's biennial congress in Berlin stated that the conference keynote would be "World Peace Through World Trade
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As President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Watson met Adolf Hitler
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As evidence that he was being honored for the help that IBM's German subsidiary Dehomag (Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH) and its punch card machines provided the Nazi regime, particularly in the tabulation
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1935· 1 entry
With the description "periodical publications"
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1924· 1 entry
Renamed CTR to International Business Machines
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1915· 1 entry
On the grounds that important defense evidence should have been admitted
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1914· 1 entry
When the five companies had about 1,300 employees
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1912· 1 entry
The company was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act
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1891· 1 entry
Taking a job at $6 a week as bookkeeper for Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post
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1874· 1 entry
Born 1874-02-17.
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