So what was the Big IBM Idea? A trusted supplier ... one cannot extract from history “management lessons,” prescriptions, and predictions about the future of this or any other business.

An IBM slogan that stems from the early days of the company. Thomas J. Watson, Sr., founder of IBM, began using the slogan in 1911 when he was working for the National Cash Register Company (NCR).

Apple co-founder Steve Job’s leather bomber jacket ... 1983 photograph where he can be seen showing middle finger to an IBM sign in New York city. The jacket could sell for up to $75,000 ...

By January 1993, Gates’s company was valued at $27 billion, briefly taking the lead over IBM, which that year posted some of the largest losses in American corporate history. But The Greatest ...