{"product_id":"ibm-isbn-9780262547826","title":"IBM","description":"\u003cb\u003eA history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue, ” an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, surviving flatlining revenue and forced reinvention. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative, monumental history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.\u003cbr\u003eCortada, a historian who worked at IBM for many years, describes IBM's technology breakthroughs, including the development of the punch card (used for automatic tabulation in the 1890 census), the calculation and printing of the first Social Security checks in the 1930s, the introduction of the PC to a mass audience in the 1980s, and the company's shift in focus from hardware to software. He discusses IBM's business culture and its orientation toward employees and customers; its global expansion; regulatory and legal issues, including antitrust litigation; and the track records of its CEOs. The secret to IBM's unequalled longevity in the information technology market, Cortada shows, is its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and technologies.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003eI From Birth to Identity: IBM in its Early Years, 1880s-1945 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Origins, 1880s-1914 3\u003cbr\u003e2 Thomas J. Watson Sr. and the Creation of IBM, 1914-1924 27\u003cbr\u003e3 The Emergence of IBM and the Culture of THINK 61\u003cbr\u003e4 IBM and the Great Depression 91\u003cbr\u003e5 IBM in World War II, 1939-1945 121\u003cbr\u003eII IBM the Computer Behemoth, 1945-1985 147\u003cbr\u003e6 IBM Gets into the Computer Business, 1945-1964 149\u003cbr\u003e7 How Computers, IBM, and a New Industry Evolved, 1945-1964 177\u003cbr\u003e8 System 360: One of the Greatest Products in History? 203\u003cbr\u003e9 \"The IBM Way\": How It Worked, 1964-1993 233\u003cbr\u003e10 \"The IBM Way\": What the World Saw, 1964-1993 257\u003cbr\u003e11 IBM on the Global Stage 283\u003cbr\u003e12 Two Decades of Antitrust Suits, 1960s-1980s 325\u003cbr\u003e13 Communist Computers 353\u003cbr\u003e14 \"A Tool for Modern Times\": IBM and the Personal Computer 379\u003cbr\u003eIII A Time of Crisis, 1985-1994 419\u003cbr\u003e15 Storms, Crisis, and Near Death, 1985-1993 421\u003cbr\u003e16 IBM's Initial Response, 1985-1993 439\u003cbr\u003e17 How IBM Was Rescued, 1993-1994 471\u003cbr\u003eIV IBM in the New Century 501\u003cbr\u003e18 A New IBM, 1995-2012 503\u003cbr\u003e19 Hard Times, Again, and Another Transformation 547\u003cbr\u003e20 THINK: IBM Today and Its Legacy 579\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note: In the Spirit of Transparency 619\u003cbr\u003eNotes 623\u003cbr\u003eBibliographic Essay 677\u003cbr\u003eIndex 687\"[An] excellent and I am tempted to label definitive book.... The research and background context is amazing and the book is readable throughout.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Tyler Cowen, \u003ci\u003eMarginal Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A good read. It is engaging and replete with juicy tidbits. The detailed discussion about sales, arguably the firm's most influential function and its main source of competitiveness for much of the twentieth century, is the book's key contribution to the literature on IBM.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[IBM] touches but lightly on the history of technology and is written primarily with a readership of business historians and corporate professionals in mind. Cortada ascribes IBM's brand success more to its historical managerial outlook and sales culture than its engineering units.... Authoritative.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A behemoth of a book for a behemoth of a company.... Chronicles the century-plus long span of a company that once dominated American business. As a narrative history of a sprawling business, it succeeds, with Cortada weaving in more scholarly historiographical debates and analysis as relevant throughout the book. The book is massive and exhaustively researched.... An ambitious and well-executed narrative business history, and many different readers will find something of value in its many pages.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Information and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Cortada provides a world-spanning example of an alternative corporate culture approach that demanded sustained effort from its employees—but treated them accordingly.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Unlike previous IBM stories by other authors, Cortada takes the time to engage in scholarly debate on relevant topics throughout each chapter. In doing so, it offers a robust and thought-provoking discussion of the 130-year history (from 1880 to 2012) of one of the most important and iconic companies of the 20th century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Arena Pública\u003c\/i\u003eJames W. Cortada is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota and the author of \u003ci\u003eInformation and the Modern Corporation\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and other books. He worked at IBM for thirty-eight years in sales, consulting, managerial, and research positions.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303695634661,"sku":"NP9780262547826","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547826.jpg?v=1767729742","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/ibm-isbn-9780262547826","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}