Installed as an outsider, he engineered a comeback, shifting the company’s focus from a waning mainframe computer business toward consulting and services.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., an outsider who became the leader of IBM when that giant computer company was in a tailspin, and who engineered a remarkable revival of its fortunes in the 1990s, died on Saturday in Jupiter, Fla. He was 83.
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Source: The New York Times | Published: 2025-12-29T21:40:39Z
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