Word: ibm
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Both got their start working to set up "affirmativeaction" programs to create a better employment climate for women at IBM, where Boyle (who was married last month) was a marketing manager and Kirkman a data-processing marketing representative. While at IBM, Boyle accepted equal-employment assignments at other companies on a freelance basis; Kirkman left the company to devise an affirmative-action program for the American Express Co. They set up Boyle/Kirkman Associates in Manhattan in 1972, with Boyle as president and Kirkman as vice president. One of a handful of management consulting firms that advise top companies on ways...
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Died. Arthur Kittredge Watson, 55, former chief of IBM's international operations and ex-U.S. Ambassador to France; following a fall at his home; in Norwalk, Conn. Son of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., Watson rose to become chairman of IBM World Trade Corp., while his older brother Thomas Jr. took the reins of the parent company. Making his motto "world peace through world trade," he presided over a rise in IBM's foreign sales from less than $50 million to $2.5 billion annually. A major Republican contributor, Watson in 1970 was named U.S. envoy...
Manne's position is funded by a grant from International Business Machines (IBM) for teaching and research on technology and society. A parallel professorship, also funded by the IBM grant, will be formed in the Engineering Department...
...Ross Perot, 44. "Making money per se never really interested me," insists the clean-cut mule trader's son from Texarkana, Texas, who quit a salesman's job at IBM in 1962, worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens...