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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
por Maney, Kevin
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- Muito Bom
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- Muito Bom/Very Good minus DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0471414638
- ISBN 13
- 9780471414636
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Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson's long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead t...
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- Heritage Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- NF55589
- Título
- The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
- Autor
- Maney, Kevin
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- n/a
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good minus DJ
- Edição
- Edition Not Specified
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0471414638
- ISBN 13
- 9780471414636
- Editorial
- John Wiley & Sons
- Local de publicação
- New Jersey
- Data de publicação
- 2003
- Páginas
- 485pp
- Dimensão
- 8vo = over 9"
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