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photos by rebecca barr/tu square studio: | A Business and Its Ideas: Shaping a Company and a CenturyApril 26, 2011 50 years ago, as IBM celebrated its first five decades in business, the company's chairman and son of its founder toasted their success with a reflection on reality. "Corporations are expendable," Tom Watson, Jr. said "Success, at best, is an achievement which can always slip out of hand." For IBM, who turns 100 this year, that didn't happen. The company which started off making clocks, scales and cheese slicers is now an industry leader in computers, software and analytics in more than 170 countries around the world. IBM made the need for continual forward movement part of its business model. Leading the century old global business is Chairman/President/CEO of IBM Sam Palmisano who visited Webster University Tuesday April 26 to be honored as the Walker School of Business & Technology's 2011 CEO of the Year award.
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