Word: ibm
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Other companies participating in the program this year include AT&T, Hewlett-Packard and IBM...
...keep the trial moving briskly--the hope is to wrap up in six to eight weeks, compared with the 13 years the IBM antitrust trial dragged on--Judge Jackson has limited each side to 12 witnesses. And he has imposed the unusual condition that all witnesses submit their direct testimony in written form. Only cross-examination and redirect take place in the courtroom...
...need to hit the books or get some additional training at a local college, or even earn a certification or accreditation, depending on what you're considering. That's the way Irwin Weinstein, 57, of Wyckoff, N.J., moved from the corporate world of IBM, where he worked for 29 years as a program manager, to a classroom at Elizabeth High School in New Jersey, where he's now a math teacher. After getting a buyout package in 1991 that included a year's salary, a full pension worth one-third of his salary and a guarantee of continued corporate-paid...
When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...
With good reason. The man has seen capitalism from all sides. His first job at IBM was selling mainframe computers to banks in Mississippi. He was so good he graduated to a big-picure gig in IBM's finance-industry division. But, entrepreneurial at heart, he quit to start a company that bought, sold and leased used IBM equipment. The company was soon taken over by Cook Industries, a conglomerate headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., that had interests in everything from hardwood floors to termite-terminating. "Bark" ran the data-processing operation for the entire enterprise...