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IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM has hit its century and is doing very well, thank you. But it's not the company it once thought it should be Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Schofield

Virginia Rometty will be IBM's first female CEO

...will have run IBM successfully for a decade after taking over from Lou Gerstner, who saved the company. Rometty, who is 54, should last at... Read more

26 October, 2011

Meg Whitman could land CEO role in HP soap opera

...it didn't take much effort to arrive at this strategy because Lou Gerstner did exactly the same thing at IBM in the 1990s -- though... Read more

21 September, 2011

IBM names Palmisano as new chief executive

Sam Palmisano will become IBM's chief executive 1 March, succeeding Lou Gerstner, the company said on Tuesday. Palmisano, currently IBM's president and... Read more

30 January, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

The Day Ahead: Should IBM exit the PC biz?

In his fireside chat with Wall Street, IBM chief Lou Gerstner said there were few things deemed unthinkable at Big Blue. Perhaps... Read more

10 May, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Gerstner tells industry to take responsibility

On Monday, IBM chief executive, Lou Gerstner, exhorted his fellow tech leaders to "step up" and address the... Read more

7 March, 2000 by Margaret Kane

IT needs a healthcheck

Finishing out a nine-year tenure at IBM, Lou Gerstner, who blew into the San Francisco Bay Area this week to... Read more

28 November, 2002 by Charles Cooper

Palmisano named as IBM chairman

...Sam Palmisano, has been elected chairman, setting the stage for longtime chairman Lou Gerstner to bid adieu at the end of the year. The move... Read more

30 October, 2002 by Dawn Kawamoto

Palmisano: Big Blue means business

...president and chief operating officer -- and the heir apparent to chief executive Lou Gerstner -- is one of IBM's biggest Linux advocates, placing the alternative... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft on Trial: After tech hearings, now what?

...after hearing pleas from high-octane execs Bill Gates, Scott McNealy and Lou Gerstner, Congress is not likely to take more pro-tech action, observers... Read more

18 June, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

IBM head vows to boost Linux development

IBM supremo Lou Gerstner yesterday gave a rousing speech in New York to reaffirm IBM... Read more

14 December, 2000 by Ron Coates

IBM may look to Sweden for new CEO

...Swedish electrical engineering group ABB, is rumoured to be replacing IBM's Lou Gerstner, according to Scandinavian newswires. Lindahl announced his resignation today following disappointing... Read more

25 October, 2000 by Pia Heikkila

Is Ray Ozzie the new Bill Gates?

...between Big Blue and Lotus, which began as a hostile takeover, CEO Lou Gerstner hopped aboard IBM's jet and paid a special visit to... Read more

16 June, 2006 by Joris Evers

Can Ozzie carry Microsoft through?

...two sides hunkered down for a fight. Big Blue's chief executive, Lou Gerstner, stood ready to sweeten the offer but he first had to... Read more

7 November, 2005 by Charles Cooper

Can Hurd fix HP?

...on horseback. The situation was equally grave when a deteriorating IBM plucked Lou Gerstner from RJR Nabisco in 1993 to become its new chief executive... Read more

30 March, 2005 by Charles Cooper

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