Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923.

I didn’t know it in 1994, but it turns out I was channeling Thomas Watson Sr. who said in another speech, this one in January 1915, shortly after he joined C-T-R: We all know there have been ...

In 1911, Thomas Watson Sr. had one word for his colleagues at National Cash Register Co.: Think. “The trouble with every one of us is that we don’t think enough,” he said. “We don’t get ...

At IBM, they meant a change to one of the company's three core values outlined by its founder, Thomas Watson Sr., and his son, Thomas Watson Jr., who together ran the company for much of the first ...