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Gerstner's jury is still out. (IBM chairman Lou Gerstner)
IBM announced a profit of $382 million for the fourth quarter of 1994, leading some to hope it had started a recovery, even though its loss for the year was a daunting $8.1 billion. Chairman Lou Gerstner has managed to cut operating costs, but revenues arIBM announced a profit of...
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 1994-01-29
Deja blue. (IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, Jr.; includes related article on his philosophy of life)(26th Annual CEO Survey)
00-00-0000 Under the direction of IW's CEO of the Year--Lou Gerstner--IBM has recovered from a near-death experience to claim once again its position as one of the most powerful and profitable companies in the world. 00-00-0000 Under the direction...
Tags: IBM Corp., survey
Research articles 1997-11-17
Japan's Lou Gerstner.(Fujitsu head Tadashi Sekizawa; Face Value)(Column)
Sekizawa, who has headed computer manufacturer for six years, has made some impressive changes at the company. He is compared with IBM head Lou Gerstner, who turned IBM around. The US and Japanese markets for mainframe and networked personal computers is Sekizawa, who has headed computer manufacturer for six years,...
Tags: computer, Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Corp.
Research articles 1996-11-23
New York Times review of Lou Gerstner memoir.
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 November 2002-IBM: New York Times review of Lou Gerstner memoir C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11132002 By Dirk Olin -- American commerce has taken so many turns in the past decade that recent business history can be disorienting. ...
Tags: FINANCE, IBM Corp., Investment, memoir, New York Times Co.
Research articles 2002-11-14
Consultant watch
SO MUCH FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF CONSULTING. On March 1, Lou Gerstner stepped aside as IBM's CEO. Gerstner, who was once a management consultant, rebuilt IBM by focusing on consulting and trumpeting the shocking for IBM approach of using whichever productsSO MUCH FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF CONSULTING. On...
Tags: consulting, IBM Corp.
Research articles 2002-03-18
The lotus eater.(proposed takeover of Lotus Development by IBM)
IBM launched a hostile bid for Lotus Development in order to gain a foothold in the computer software industry. IBM chairman Lou Gerstner explained his company's $3.3 billion bid as a necessary move into communication software, such as Lotus' Notes producIBM launched a hostile bid for Lotus Development in order...
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 1995-06-10
The Custer connection: IBM. (computer sales)
IBM has experienced a drop in mainframe computer sales, but its new coupling technology is helping the company retain longtime users who would otherwise defect to makers of less expensive systems. Chmn Lou Gerstner's management strategy is discussed.IBM has experienced a drop in mainframe computer sales, but its new coupling...
Tags: computer, IBM Corp., sales
Research articles 1994-04-09
Blue is the colour.(The Rebirth of IBM)(Company Profile)
Under the leadership of Lou Gerstner since 1993, IBM is reemerging as a competitive player in the computer industry. After 10 years of job cuts, IBM's profits and share price have recovered, and the company has begun to hire again. Other companies have beUnder the leadership of Lou Gerstner since...
Tags: company, IBM Corp.
Research articles 1998-06-06
Follow that; Face value.(Face value: Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss)(Brief Article)
Will Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss, be a worthy successor to Lou Gerstner? Will Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss, be a worthy successor to Lou Gerstner?
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 2002-02-02
Daily News, New York, Publishing Column.
By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 8--LOU GERSTNER, get an agent or call your lawyer. The IBM chairman, who recently announced plans to step down at the end of the year, has since received glowing...
Tags: advertisement, chairman, General Motors Corp., IBM Corp., SOFTWARE
Research articles 2002-02-08
ADVISORY/Photo Regarding The National Future Cities Competition is Available in a Smart News Release on www.businesswire.com
Photo/ Business & Technology Editors SMART NEWS ADVISORY... --BUSINESS WIRE A photo that goes with Business Wire Story 975, that ran earlier today, is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.022101/bb7 Photo caption reads: IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner Meets Finalists of the National Future Cities Competition in...
Tags: Business Wire, chairman, photograph
Research articles 2001-02-21
How to Beat a Lower-Priced Competitor
It's every company's nightmare: a competitor enters your market with a similar product priced at a fraction of what you currently charge. You need a strategy for beating the low-ballers. So what's the best way to proceed? On the one hand, all you need to do is...
Tags: Management, Competitor, Competition, Product, Customer, Crash Course, competitive strategy, costing, price, Geoffrey James
Articles 2007-06-14
Gary Hamel: Don't Be a Dinosaur
Gary Hamel ends his ‘Future of Management’ with a two-chapter ‘how-to’ section, aptly titled ‘Building the Future of Management.’ The first looks closely at two real-world attempts to create more innovative companies. Hamel starts with IBM’s efforts to take its world-beating research and turn it into new...
Tags: Strategy, Operational Accounting, Strategic Planning, Gary Hamel, IBM Corp., Management, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2007-11-30
CEO Succession: Does Your Company Have a Clue?
The single most valuable player in almost any company is its chief executive officer. Given that, most firms surely have succession plans ready to go when Mrs. CEO steps off to another opportunity or the Board decides to go in another leadership direction. Right? Um, not so...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Management, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Bower, CEO, Succession
Blog posts 2008-05-22
IBM's Magic Moment
After ceding the market for PC servers to the likes of Dell and Compaq in the mid-1990s, IBM has resorted to "magic" as it intensifies its assault on the high-margin segment, which uses Microsoft's Windows NT operating system and Intel microprocessors as a cheaper alternative to the traditional host/server systems...
Tags: Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp., server
Research articles 1999-08-09
Big Blue: Turnabout is Good Play. - Brief Article - Review - book reviews
Saving Big Blue--Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner. By Robert Slater. McGraw-Hill. 288 pp.
Tags: IBM Corp.
Research articles 1999-12-01
ADVISORY/Photo of IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner monitoring Y2K transition is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site
Photo/Business/High-Tech Editors
Tags: Business Wire, IBM Corp., Web, Web site
Research articles 1999-12-31
Seven Lessons From Yahoo's Year of Blunders
Time is running out for Jerry Yang. With Google pulling out of the search ad deal, Yahoo is essentially out of options, except for one. Its embattled CEO is now trying to lure Microsoft â€" the suitor he went to great lengths to jilt â€" back to the negotiating table....
Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., CEO, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2008-11-07
How Long Should it Take to Turn Around a Company?
I received an email from a reader in response to How Do These CEOs Keep Their Jobs? that brought up a thought provoking question: "How long should it take to turn around a company and how do you know if it's working?" Here's an excerpt from the...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sprint Communications, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Pricing, Balance Sheets, Product Marketing, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Financial Statements, Steve Tobak
Blog posts 2008-11-11
Riding the storm.(world's two biggest car makers moving their entire supply chains on to the Internet)
Next year Ford and General Motors will move their entire multibillion dollar purchasing operations on to the Internet. It's e-business for grown-ups SOME months ago, Lou Gerstner, the boss of IBM, dismissively described the thousands of new "dot.com" companies springing up as "fireflies...
Tags: car, e-business, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., INTERNET, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Oracle Corp., Portals, SOFTWARE, supplier
Research articles 1999-11-06
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