Gerstner joined IBM from RJR Nabisco in 1993 to rescue the company at a time when it was reporting multibillion-dollar annual losses and oversaw a regimen of job cuts and plant closings as he slashed ...
Installed as an outsider, he engineered a comeback, shifting the company’s focus from a waning mainframe computer business ...
Louis Gerstner, who took over IBM in 1993 as it stood on the brink of breakup and bankruptcy, died at 83, leaving behind a legacy defined by preserving IBM as an integrated company and changing its ...
IBM Corp. has produced a personal computer that is easier for people to buy, set up and use than most other systems on the market. But the fate of IBM's re-entry into the home computer market may rest ...
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the former IBM chairman and chief executive who led one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds ...